Astragal is sorry to hear of PR problems for the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The Jean Nouvel- designed project, as yet unbuilt, struck a deal with the French gallery - rumoured to be more than $ 1 billion - for use of its name for 30 years, and the loan of artworks. Now criticism of the arrangement as vulgar, 'culturally colonial' and the equivalent of opening a new branch of an existing institution has drawn an angry, if confusing, response from Rita Aoun-Abdo, cultural director of Abu Dhabi's Tourism Investment and Development Company.
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机译:对于听到卢浮宫阿布扎比(Louvre Abu Dhabi)的公关问题,Astragal感到遗憾。由尚·努维尔(Jean Nouvel)设计的项目(尚未完工)与法国画廊达成了一笔交易(据传其价值超过10亿美元),使用了其30年的名称,并借用了艺术品。现在,人们批评这种安排是低俗的,“具有文化殖民色彩的”,相当于开设了一个现有机构的新分支机构,这引起了阿布扎比旅游投资与发展公司文化总监丽塔·奥恩·阿卜杜的愤怒,甚至令人困惑。
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