“The Guggenheim is not going through an easy time at the moment. Years ago, we chose a strategy geared toward achieving a worldwide presence — in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. There is a document to this effect, which everyone enthusiastically agreed to at one point. What I have planned in Abu Dhabi is so much bigger than what I’ve done so far. It’ll be the kind of thing we’ve never seen before. The only expression I can think of to describe it is pharaonic.”