MIA Park

This guide to Seven, Richard Serra's eighty-foot rusted-steel sculpture in Doha's MIA Park, starts with the artist's earlier public sculpture in Manhattan, cut apart by workers after years of complaints. It follows Serra to Qatar Museums' invitation, his choice to build around the number seven sacred in Islamic tradition, and the mixed local reaction when the piece opened in 2011. The seven steel plates, each eight feet wide, were shipped from Germany and left to weather in the sea air.