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French Museums Will Loan 300 Works to Louvre Abu Dhabi, Including Paintings by Leonardo, Titian, and Picasso
The list of artworks that will be loaned by French museums to the Louvre Abu Dhabi has been released.
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Gehry Gets Frank on Labor at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
As labor conditions on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island fall under ever-increasing scrutiny, Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim's outpost there, has issued a statement regarding his firm's "substantial and on-going dialogue" on the issue.
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Front-Page NYT Report Confirms Gulf Labor Findings on Saadiyat Island
A front-page investigative story published in the New York Times today has confirmed previous allegations of labor abuses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), echoing the findings of the Guardian, Human Rights Watch, and — most recently — the Gulf Labor activist group.
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Whitney Museum to Offer Year of Free Admission to Construction Workers
At a hard-hat tour of the Whitney's Renzo Piano-designed building in downtown Manhattan earlier this month, it was announced that the institution plans to extend a year of museum membership to the project's construction workers.
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G.U.L.F. Responds to Guggenheim, Calls on Museum to Open Its Doors to Free Public Assembly
The following statement was emailed to Hyperallergic, and it is a response to Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong's statement earlier today:
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Protest Action Erupts Inside Guggenheim Museum
Tonight, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night's pay-what-you-wish admission hours.
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'Independent' Monitor Releases Report on UAE Museums-Related Labor Conditions
Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), chaired by Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahoon Al Nahyan and a coterie of royal relations, has weathered its fair share of bad press connected with Saadiyat Island, a multi-billion dollar art-and-luxury hub on an artificial protrusion in the Persian
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52 Weeks of Art and Human Rights in the Emirates
This week saw the launch of 52 Weeks of Gulf Labor, a yearlong activist project coordinated by Gulflabor, a working group opposed to the treatment of laborers at Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island cultural mega-development.
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Abu Dhabi's Guggenheim and Louvre Projects Site of Bloody Labor Clashes
LONDON — At least 40 laborers were hospitalized and 25 arrested on Tuesday evening after a violent brawl erupted between workers on Saadiyat Island, in an eruption allegedly provoked by the deportation of strikers and the hiring of "scab" workers in the aftermath of a strike affecting thousands of l