And there are things which are the purpose of Louvre Abu Dhabi. Louvre Abu Dhabi is telling, as you say, in a chronologic order, a very long history of art creation in history.Through chapter by chapter, room by room, you really start 12,000 years ago, and you arrive to the modern time.
And I'm very pleased to see, it's about connection. Louvre Abu Dhabi is not about the modernity of art today.It is about this long story.
And there are several projects of museum. Louvre Abu Dhabi was the first, and we were very happy to be opened in 2017, so now, very soon, three years.And we have close to us Zayed National Museum, which is being constructed and which we can see from the street when we pass by,
But it's pushing it to the next level. And Louvre Abu Dhabi is on Saadiyat Island, which is one of the islands of Abu Dhabi, and so a real island. I've heard so many times-- An actual island.
We were made for wheelchairs. In Louvre Abu Dhabi, since we have artworks from all over the world, I think it's a interesting place to think about your identity,
We were made for wheelchairs. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, I didn't mention, but it has been a long project.
article I wrote when I heard that this theft had occurred in Sicily. Um but I will say that, you know, ever since the heist at the Louvre last October, that has served as a really strong news hook, and people are paying more attention to museum heist. But for those who aren't in my field, uh what what you should know is that these things happen all the
I can now look at all Mona Lisas and I could compare the embroidery pattern to Leonardo's found in the Louvre Museum. Well, one of them was known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa.
from the auditorium side, where accompanying what became the Department of Islamic Art, a new critical wing which was opened in the Louvre -- it's at the Louvre in Paris. And so that was my first real encounter with this part of the world from a professional point of view.
They are building collection, and having this way of bringing the treasure of the world and offering to people in the city this access to the world. And for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the question was to reinvent this and to use Louvre on Abu Dhabi-- Louvre as this connection to all this context, and Abu Dhabi as a hub of the world, as one of the capital of the Middle East, one of the capital of the world, which is definitely
And this is one of the next discussion, I'm sure-- how can we bridge that? But for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, yes, the change was obvious, very important. It was also, for us, it's about being consistent and meaningful.
And there is something which is very important. So in Louvre Abu Dhabi, we're presenting real objects, real artifacts, very old or very new, but very precious. And we present them in the same space and you.
And you want the truth, then I hope it will not be the case. But to make the Louvre Abu Dhabi the safest place to visit on Earth, we needed to be absolutely drastic in our organization. So I mention, we are part of Department of Culture and Tourism.
We were made for wheelchairs. their work in the Louvre ?
We were made for wheelchairs. We launched at Louvre Abu Dhabi a program to collect the archive of the pandemic touching us, just to be able to understand.
And they aimed high. They targeted the Louvre in Paris and the Reich's Museum in Holland. In terms of private collections, they targeted families that were known throughout Europe as having amazing private collections,
You can visit this painting. It is in the Louvre in Paris. And honestly, the slide does not do it justice.
53. And there's a standard deviation around that. The curators of the Louvre brought in experts to value each of the paintings, in part for insurance purposes.
But you still need to go to Disneyland. You still need to go to the Louvre Museum in Paris. And then you engage in social conversation.
Well, I thought it was important to get into Leonardo's mindset. They'll be in the Louvre , and they'll be looking at the "Mona Lisa," and wherever they move, her eyes follow them.
Now, when it was finally returned, the world rejoiced, and the story went viral again. And it was put into the Louvre in a coveted place, and that's the only reason any of us know the Mona Lisa. Up until that point, nobody cared about that painting.
That is-- Absolutely. You're absolutely right, Tarek. This is one of the specificities of Louvre Abu Dhabi, which is, let's say, a universal museum, but born in the 21st century. So the universal museum or encyclopedic museum-- the Louvre , the British Museum, the Met, New York,
So the team maintained the continuity of the protection of the artwork, and now they are absolutely well older. So it was the artwork of Louvre Abu Dhabi collection, owned by the Louvre Abu Dhabi, but also the loans that we have from 13 French museums. And we had an exhibition on Furusiyya, which was closed.
We were made for wheelchairs. But I think that a visit to Louvre Abu Dhabi can trigger something, can open mind, can shift perspective,
We were made for wheelchairs. It makes sense in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
It absolutely spoke to me, a piece of art. Has anybody been to the Louvre in Paris, seen the "Mona Lisa"? It's crap. It doesn't work for me.
Fantastic. It doesn't mean, when it's different, it's opposite. I have to mention the Louvre in all this-- the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, which is-- Yeah-- sure. If you have not visited it, you have to visit it.
But the British Museum combined these three great collections, and for the first time you had a national collection. And then in Paris-- this is the Louvre -- you had pretty much the same thing. What happened in Paris was there was the French Revolution, that the old king had probably Europe's biggest art collection.
And after the revolution, they said, hold on, we're going to show his collection to the public and we're going to do it in his old palace, and that today is the Louvre Museum. And in both the British Museum and the Louvre , you had a new problem.
53. And there's a standard deviation around that. So he sneaks into the Louvre on a Sunday night-- it was closed on Mondays at the time-- slept, woke up, and on
Well, I brought with me today an exact 360 replica of the "Mona Lisa" painting. This is exactly what you would see at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Now I we think of the "Mona Lisa" as being really small.
And then we're open and running. I don't know if everybody is familiar with the Louvre Abu Dhabi itself. I have a very short video.
This is one of the specificities of Louvre Abu Dhabi, which is, let's say, a universal museum, but born in the 21st century. So the universal museum or encyclopedic museum-- the Louvre , the British Museum, the Met, New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and many more influenced by ,, were this museum trying to understand the world, to grasp the world,
There are things that I believe and I feel living here in Abu Dhabi. And there are things which are the purpose of Louvre Abu Dhabi. Louvre Abu Dhabi is telling, as you say, in a chronologic order, a very long history of art creation in history.
I know that with the pandemic situation, and with where we've been for the last few months, many museums have had to close their doors. And I know that your experience in the Louvre , both in terms of your response and creating a digital experience very quickly. But then also, in terms of the speed at which you reopened are both topics that I think our viewers would be really
We were made for wheelchairs. And when you build those extensions to the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the future that look at this time that we're in now, what do you think
We were made for wheelchairs. But I think in the case of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, it's such a true expression, and it really
We were made for wheelchairs. So you understand, Louvre Abu Dhabi, half of the artwork that you will see are coming from Louvre Abu Dhabi collection, which is growing.
to see that in one room, instead of getting from a hall to another. And I think, the Louvre Abu Dhabi also defines what having different cultures in one place-- how does it look like? Yes-- and in practice.
and that today is the Louvre Museum. And in both the British Museum and the Louvre , you had a new problem. You had loads and loads of stuff to show, and that meant you needed a new role.
And little Greek girls, we now know, even played with Amazon dolls. These are just two from the collection in the Louvre . They have-- some of them have movable arms and legs like Barbie dolls.
We were made for wheelchairs. that I think you really-- you said, Louvre Abu Dhabi is a gift to the world.
We were made for wheelchairs. But the Children's Museum is really an invention that we added for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, betting on education, betting on children, betting on the,
And it talks exactly about that, where you have meeting of cultures, right? Yes. What's so beautiful about the Louvre Abu Dhabi is it's created in a way that it gets different cultures in same halls, yet different time frames. So it's different time zones, with more than one culture at the same time.
It's a year where we're going to talk more about our strategy and creative and cultural index, which we announced during the event that we had with His Highness bin Rashid in the Louvre in February. So that index, by itself, also will help us measure the creative and cultural sector.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. through war-- basically, everything in the Louvre .
Now if you just noticed, there is a black and white version, and here is a color version of the same. Here is a color version of the shot of the Pyramid in the Louvre Court that I showed you a couple of slides ago as well. So my pattern here is that I'm mirroring back, and I've moved into color.
This is a very clever experiment. What he did was to make a big double burning glass outside the Louvre and put a diamond at the focus, which is what he's doing now.
Enjoy. I'd be longboarding from Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square or from the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower, and people would be chasing me down-- here, here,
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