Louvre Abu Dhabi

This guide to the Louvre Abu Dhabi traces the billion-euro, thirty-year deal that let this island museum borrow the Louvre's name and art, and follows the money as it flowed to more than a dozen French institutions, from a pyramid repair in Paris to a rooftop restaurant fee. It circles back to a record-breaking auction at Christie's in November 2017, the week this museum opened, and to a painting that made headlines that week. Look up at Jean Nouvel's eight-layered star lattice dome as you listen.