Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Readies Blank Checks

We’ve never had the pleasure of visiting Abu Dhabi or Dubai, but we imagine those oil-soaked emirates to be rococo playgrounds concocted from the wildest dreams of Walt Disney, Steve Wynn, Alfred Taubman, and Willy Wonka. And so we were delighted to read that Abu Dhabi’s new Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum will have a “potentially unlimited” collection budget (wait — isn’t that the opposite of a budget?), at least that’s how Abu Dhabi Authority culture advisor Zaki Nusseibeh described it to The Art Newspaper, in a special edition of the paper distributed at The Armory Show in New York City.