“A side effect -- or maybe an unspoken condition -- of today's global boom in contemporary art and the public's acceptance of its language is that art doesn't actually have any social agency. Yet in Saadiyat we might be looking at a more ancient and exciting situation, where the instrumentalisation of art and culture -- which on the one hand is a simple economic calculation -- also carries the potential for art to be of interest, and to change society.” A wistful James Westcott
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also,
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=52018_0_24_0_C
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