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2005-07-28 Europe
Saudi billionaire donates EUR 17m to Louvre
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Posted by Seafarious 2005-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The collection is especially strong in the areas of medieval Persian and Arab art and the Ottoman Empire and claims one of the world's most prestigious collections of ancient Oriental carpets. It also has major archaeological holdings and a well-preserved archive of papyrus documents from the first centuries of Islam.

Straight from looted Baghdad museums to you! Who are you to resist it, ah?
Posted by Chris W.">Chris W.  2005-07-28 00:15||   2005-07-28 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Does that mean that the Islamists will only boom the nudies' section of the Louvre?
Posted by True German Ally 2005-07-28 02:16||   2005-07-28 02:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Walid, yes. The Man of Success to the average Saudi. I'd say he has just secured himself a haven if things get too hot back in LalaLand. Walid is, easily, the most competent, cunning, and successful businessman in the Royal zoo. I had a very long and very interesting talk with the Bahraini guy that was "facilitator" for my employer in Saudi. He told me every Saudi man on the street knows Walid's name and it is commonly believed he would eventually become King, should the House fall. I'm sure the Wahhabis would have much to say about it, but this fellow, who was our go-between with the Saudi Govt, Aramco, etc, was adamant that if it all fell apart, the guy who could pick up the pieces was Walid. Of course, that said, I'm glad as hell Rudy gave him back his fucking check and told him to take a hike.
Posted by .com 2005-07-28 02:25||   2005-07-28 02:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Still Mona Lisa in a hijab would be a nice little gesture, don't you think?
Posted by True German Ally 2005-07-28 02:27||   2005-07-28 02:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Lol - I don't doubt he has the temerity to request it be altered, heh. The guy is truly out there and drunk on his own reputation.
Posted by .com 2005-07-28 02:54||   2005-07-28 02:54|| Front Page Top

#6 TGA

I think he would prefer Mona Lisa in a burkha
Posted by JFM">JFM  2005-07-28 06:57||   2005-07-28 06:57|| Front Page Top

#7 One litle problem is that there is no way to ass a wing to the Louvre without destroying its architectonic coherency. It is basically a medievel palace. To the South a garden separates it from the river Seine. In the west there are the Tuileries and their garden (ie taboo), in the east it is heavily built and quite taboo too. In the North it is stil more taboo.

The political battles promise to be interesting. Now the simpler would have been to tell him to stuff his check and that we already the Institut of the Monde Arabe for organizing expos about arab art.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2005-07-28 07:20||   2005-07-28 07:20|| Front Page Top

#8 
Seen below is a rare example of Arab Art. It's called Yellow Rectangular Love.








It's from Nassers' 3rd Yellow Period
Posted by Shipman 2005-07-28 08:19||   2005-07-28 08:19|| Front Page Top

#9 ahem..p period.
Posted by Flotch Creatle3633 2005-07-28 09:28||   2005-07-28 09:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Does that mean that the Islamists will only boom the nudies' section of the Louvre?

TGA - No. Remember the Taleban rules, and they were Wahabi. Not only the nudes but also all women not in full burka...

Also removed, like the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan...

1) Any portrait showing favorable to a religion not Islam...

2) Any portrait depicting anything musical.

3) Any portrait showing a chess board.

4) Any portrait depicting kite flying.

5) Any portrait of any person.

6) Any portrait depicting wine or any alcoholic beverage...

So what you would have left is a few landscapes

(Clearing in the Forest near Fontainebleau 1866 - Rousseau)

and paintings of barnyard animals (no pigs, of course)...

Image hosted by Photobucket.com (Farm Courtyard in Normandy - Monet)
The children would be covered up by a black oval...




The former is to remind the faithful where they can find the 72 virgins in the afterlife, and the latter is for what is allowed before one martyrs one's self to get to "paradise"...
Posted by BigEd 2005-07-28 12:18||   2005-07-28 12:18|| Front Page Top

#11 That still leaves the the up direction for the new wing. Maybe in a charming minaret.
Posted by ed 2005-07-28 12:43||   2005-07-28 12:43|| Front Page Top

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