"Ugly, frightful and odious" were the words used by Solange d'Herbez de la Tour, president of the French Union of Women Architects, to describe Paris' newest and most spectacular art museum. Descendants of such modern masters as Braque and Rouault refused to permit their works to be installed there. Louise Nevelson, Robert Motherwell, James Rosenquist and some 40 other American artists, collectors and critics boycotted the place to protest against France's release of Palestinian Terrorist Abu Daoud. Other detractors simply charged that the computerized temple of glass and steel was too expensive (about $200 million). And so, amid all the scandale...
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