Perché non ha costruito un museo in Armenia e non ha ospitato lì le opere d’arte? Perché i miliardari armeni preferiscono donare ad altri paesi ma non all’Armenia?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/arts/design/tavitian-collector-old-masters-auction-art-clark.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
di levee75
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I mean, it could have totally boosted tourism. near 0 impact on the U.S. but a massive one for tiny Armenia.
A agree with your sentiment but there’s years of work that needs to be done before anyone would consider such a donation.
IRC, the National Gallery/National History Museum in Yerevan has beyond substandard fire prevention systems for a museum. I know an archeologist who was working on a digitization project and was terrified of what might happen in that building should an accident happen in the storage areas.
Fire prevention aside, most of these works come with specific environmental needs that I’m not sure any institution in Armenia can fully support and a lot of that comes from what is stipulated by insurers.
Of course a billionaire could totally provide the funding to bring these places into the 21st century and take steps for the literal preservation of our culture but that won’t get them the same attention as a big donation to western museums and billionaire altruism always comes at a specific ego stroking price.
Also likely tax benefits (?)