The budget set aside for new cultural development would be the envy of any arts administrator: 21.6 billion Hong Kong dollars, or about $2.8 billion, to build 15 performance venues, a museum, an exhibition center and a giant park on some of the world's most valuable undeveloped waterfront property.
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This sense of self-contained locality would also be reinforced by the decentralization of cultural growth (the City Opera, the Guggenheim, the Whitney and the Met are all seeking new or additional space) and by encouraging the development of new cultural, educational and commercial institutions to enhance the variety and life of these neighborhood centers.
The military victory and subsequent structural changes not only established the new ruling group in a position of military and economic power but also allowed for the infusion and development of a new cultural ethos one that paralleled but was determinedly distinct from that developed by the court in Nara and in Kyōto.
New from Qatar last week: a) allegations of officials bussing in migrant workers from labour camps to fill empty seats at football matches; and b) the launch of a new cultural facility at a £3.6bn Doha development – a modern slavery museum with exhibits covering "migrant labour issues", "recruitment and exploitation".
Left unanswered was how the fund-raising burden for the new cultural buildings would be divided among the arts institutions and development corporation.
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The chancellor recently announced £150m for London museums, £141m for arts and cultural developments at London's Olympic Park and £100m for a new Royal College of Arts campus in Battersea.
New cultural attractions were another priority.
Only then would new cultural possibilities emerge.
