Day 5097: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi & China plants 66 Billion trees.

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Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Exterior of the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

 For the architecture lovers among us, after 20 years of delays, allegations, and recalibrations, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation will open the doors to its Frank Gehry-designed Abu Dhabi outpost on December 11, 2026. The 30-gallery museum will join seven other cultural institutions on Saadiyat Island, including the Zayed National Museum and Berklee Abu Dhabi 

“The museum’s art collection is uniquely local and global, centred in the region but with works from all continents,” Guggenheim Director and CEO Mariët Westermann said in a statement. She expressed that the museum will showcase the “experimental character of art since 1960,” including abstractions, storytelling, painting, and moving images.

In the past 16 years, the art activism group Gulf Labor Coalition (GLC) has been calling attention to abuse allegations of migrant workers and violations of local and international labor laws linked to the new museum. In 2015, an offshoot of the group called Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) staged a May Day occupation of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and a May 8 occupation of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice during the Venice Biennale.

On May Day 2015, members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) unveiled a large parachute in the Guggenheim Museum rotunda with the words “Meet Workers Demands Now”

“None of the initial reasons for this action have been adequately resolved over the years, despite Gulf Labor’s strident efforts, and the art world’s generally sympathetic response,” GLC Co-Founder Andrew Ross told Hyperallergic after this week’s announcement about the December opening.

   

   

China has planted around 66 billion trees to build one of the world’s largest defenses against advancing deserts.

Since 1978, China’s Three North Shelterbelt Program, often called the Green Great Wall, has created vast strips and patches of trees across northern China. These shelterbelts help stabilize sand dunes, reduce wind erosion and slow desertification near the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts. Forest cover across the program area rose from around 5% in 1978 to 14% in 2022, although scientists say continued care and careful water management remain essential.

#China #Reforestation #Environment

  

  

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