As part of the Louvre pre opening the security around the upcoming inauguration was tight and I was only allowed to enter the galleries after the opening day. At this time it was packed with visitors. I met with Holland Cotter, The New York Times art critic who in 2009 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2009. Here is the link to my photographs and Holland’s words.
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: The Louvre Abu Dhabi’s collection includes Giovanni Bellini’s “Madonna and Child” (1480 to 1485). Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Painting of Napolean Bonaparte, 1st Consul, Crossing the Alps on May 1800. Jaques-Louis David. France 1803. Oil on canvas, on loan from Muse’e national des chateaux de Versailles. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Propagation (2017) is a wall of porcelain tiles that depict hand-drawn concentric circles originating from the fingerprint of Sheikh Zayed, the UAE’s founding father. It was produced in collaboration with the workshops of Sèvres – Cité de la céramique in France. CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Visitors to the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the First Great Powers Gallery. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Metal Painting: Convex Geometrical Portrait. Martial Raysse. France 1964. Industrial paint and flocking on canvas. Centre Pompidou. Muse’e National d’art Moderne. Centre de cre’ation d’art industrielle. Don de M. Alexander Iolas en 1978. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: The Louvre Abu Dhabi’s collection includes Giovanni Bellini’s “Madonna and Child” (1480 to 1485). Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Painting of Napolean Bonaparte, 1st Consul, Crossing the Alps on May 1800. Jaques-Louis David. France 1803. Oil on canvas, on loan from Muse’e national des chateaux de Versailles. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: A man photographs Jenny Holzer’s marble relief of cuneiform text that transcribes a creation myth in Sumerian and Akkadian from a Mesopotamian tablet, ca. 1250 BCE. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Dancer, Fourth Position on the Left Leg, Third Study and Dancer Arabesque Over the Right Leg, Right Arm Near the Ground and. Edgar Degas. France Paris 1921-1931. Bronze. Muse’e d’Orsay. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: A woman in the final gallery ‘A Global Stage’. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Visitors in the final gallery ‘A Global Stage’ listen to a Louvre Guide. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Visitors to he Louvre view the Pentateuch: First part of the Torah. Yemen, Sana’a 1498. Ink on paper. Louvre Abu Dhabi which is exhibited alongside a seventh-century Quran and gothic Bible. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Visitors to the Louvre Abu Dhabi look at the Sarcophagus of Henuttawy: coffins and mummy’s wrapping. Egyptian civilisation Egypt, 950-900 BCE. Painted wood, stuccoed and painted cloth. In the First Great Powers Gallery. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-November 13, 2017: Food for thought.Al Muallaqat by Maha Malluh. Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. Eleven burned cooking pots. 2013. Louvre Abu Dhabi CREDIT: Katarina Premfors/The New York Times
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