Abu Dhabi, the capital of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, has called on the Louvre and the Guggenheim to help develop a cultural district on Saadiyat Island, 500 yards off the coast of the city. The two museums will lend their names, along with works from their collections to two new institutions, which will be accompanied by a maritime museum, a national museum, and a performing arts center.

Two Eastern European countries, Latvia and Hungary, gained their independence less than 20 years ago, and both were admitted into the European Union only three years ago; they are still in the process of developing their infrastructure to support national arts and culture.

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Nato Thompson is a writer, activist, curator of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and School of the Art Institute (SAIC) alumnus.

Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, who is known for his “portraits and sculptures of happy rotund people,” focuses his latest work on Abu Ghraib and the American abuses at the Iraq prison, reports National Public Radio’s Margot Adler.

Kathy Richland Pick and Tricia Moreau Sweeney win grant from National Museum of Women in the Arts, in an event developed by board member and SAIC Arts Administration graduate student Michal Russo.