A Brazilian court has blocked construction of a new Guggenheim Museum in Brazil. “The ban follows public outcry that the $US250 million project is a luxury the city cannot afford. Many of Rio’s citizens said the money should be spent on fighting crime or improving education and health care in the city’s teeming shantytowns. Billboards have appeared showing a photograph of a homeless girl drinking from a puddle on the sidewalk with the caption, ‘Does Rio need such a museum? and the Guggenheim name encircled in red.”