Untitled (Ghardaia), 2009 by Kader Attia is part of the Guggenheim exhibition “But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa”, which was to have toured to China. Photo: David Heald Untitled (Ghardaia), 2009 by Kader Attia is part of the Guggenheim exhibition “But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa”, which was to have toured to China. Photo: David Heald
Untitled (Ghardaia), 2009 by Kader Attia is part of the Guggenheim exhibition “But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa”, which was to have toured to China. Photo: David Heald
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Unexplained scrapping of Guggenheim show in Shanghai illustrates need to tread carefully in China

Last-minute cancellation of Middle East contemporary art show in China raises questions about right way to work with museums there. V&A Museum’s deputy director offers a three-step strategy

Topic |   Art Basel 2017
Enid Tsui
Enid Tsui

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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Untitled (Ghardaia), 2009 by Kader Attia is part of the Guggenheim exhibition “But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa”, which was to have toured to China. Photo: David Heald Untitled (Ghardaia), 2009 by Kader Attia is part of the Guggenheim exhibition “But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa”, which was to have toured to China. Photo: David Heald
Untitled (Ghardaia), 2009 by Kader Attia is part of the Guggenheim exhibition “But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa”, which was to have toured to China. Photo: David Heald
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