Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum

This guide to the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island traces the museum's run of missed opening dates since Frank Gehry's design was announced in 2006, from the first target of 2011 through a string of later ones that kept sliding. You'll hear how a 2007 warning from Human Rights Watch about migrant laborers on the construction site went unanswered, and how more than a hundred artists and writers later signed a boycott pledge over conditions on the island. The guide follows how outside auditors and years of scrutiny ran alongside construction that, against expectation, kept moving forward.