[spectre] Fw: NYTimes.com: Billionaire Cancels Plan for a Museum Near Paris

[Who has Ringworm?]

Franck - you are so cute! Tell us : what's a
billionaire? Where can I buy one? And a museum is
where you buy groceries - am I correct? Yes, yes - a
museum full of still lifes in a grocery near you...!

scale back on expresso [sic] as we americans do!

<<deutchmarks or dollars/american express will do
nicely thank you...>>  - "Private Dancer" sung by Tina
Turner -  on her 1984 LP release "Private
Dancer"/written by Mark Knopfler/produced & MIXED by
Carter/recorded in England/Capitol Records/

check it ooouuutah ...

THE ID DID.

ciao -

--- franck ancel <franck.ancel at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> BYE BYE!
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: nck at ifrance.com
> To: franck.ancel at wanadoo.fr
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 7:33 PM
> Subject: NYTimes.com: Billionaire Cancels Plan for a
> Museum Near Paris
> 
> ARTS / ART & DESIGN |   May 10, 2005
> 
> Billionaire Cancels Plan for a Museum Near Paris
> By ALAN RIDING
> 
> PARIS, May 9 - François Pinault, a billionaire who
> is France's wealthiest
> art lover, announced Monday that he was abandoning
> plans to build a $195
> million contemporary art museum on the outskirts of
> Paris and would instead
> present part of his vast collection in the Palazzo
> Grassi, an elegant
> exhibition space on the Grand Canal in Venice that
> he recently acquired.
> 
> Mr. Pinault, 68, whose corporate empire includes
> Christie's, Gucci, Yves
> Saint Laurent and three chains of department and
> media stores, said he was
> reluctantly giving up the museum project because it
> was five years behind
> schedule. He said the delays were caused by
> municipal authorities in the
> Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt.
> 
> Designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the
> museum was intended to
> occupy part of Île Seguin, an island in the Seine
> southwest of Paris that
> had long been occupied by a Renault automobile
> plant. One of Mr. Pinault's
> conditions was that the whole area would be
> urbanized, but so far no plans
> to develop the rest of the island have been
> approved.
> 
> In recent months, French newspapers have reported
> that elected officials in
> Boulogne-Billancourt were indifferent to the
> proposed museum, prompting
> speculation that senior French politicians were less
> than enthusiastic about
> the idea of a private citizen's entering a museum
> world long monopolized
> here by the government.
> 
> "Eternity is for art, not for projects that aim to
> serve it," Mr. Pinault
> noted in an article he wrote in Le Monde on Monday,
> adding that he was
> abandoning his plan with "intense disappointment and
> deep sadness."
> 
> Still, after his purchase of the 18th-century
> Palazzo Grassi last month, his
> decision to turn his back on Boulogne-Billancourt
> was not a surprise. The
> palazzo, acquired by Fiat in 1984 and later restored
> by the architect Gae
> Aulenti, has been the site of numerous important
> exhibitions in recent
> years.
> 
> Last year, the city of Venice acquired the palazzo,
> which Mr. Pinault bought
> for $37 million.
> 
> Writing in Le Monde, Mr. Pinault said he would
> present a selection of works
> from his collection there later this year and he was
> also making plans to
> build an extension that would double the palazzo's
> exhibition space.
> Further, he said he was looking for space in other
> European cities to create
> an international circuit for his art. In Le Monde he
> mentioned Berlin and
> Lille in northern France as possibilities.
> 
> The collection, which he began 30 years ago,
> includes works by modern
> artists like Miró, Brancusi, Picasso, Modigliani,
> Rothko, Pollock and Warhol
> and by contemporary artists like Bruce Nauman, Cindy
> Sherman, Matthew
> Barney, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. Mr. Pinault had
> planned to inaugurate
> his new museum with a Jeff Koons show.
> 
> "My desire to share my passion for art remains
> intact," he wrote, "which is
> why I am seizing the extraordinary opportunity
> offered by the availability
> of the Palazzo Grassi to start presenting my
> collection to the public
> without delay." And he added: "Venice is neither the
> refuge of a
> disappointed passion nor a last resort. It is - in
> the finest tradition of
> the city - a point of departure and a firm
> expectation of many adventures."
> 
> Published: May 10, 2005
> 
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