A group of artists is threatening to withhold work from exhibition in Abu Dhabi's new galleries, over concerns about the welfare of those constructing the buildings.
"You can try to withhold work, transfer to a different department or, if you believe it's safe and anonymous, file a formal grievance.
"The tendency of people to withhold work-relevant information is probably greater than you think," said Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis professor of leadership and management at Harvard Business School.
Unlike his colleagues who earned their incomes from publication, he was wealthy enough to withhold works until he felt they were ready.
Image caption The Guggenheim said it was "dismayed that we must withhold works of art" The Guggenheim Museum in New York has pulled three exhibits featuring animals after receiving "explicit and repeated threats of violence".
"As an arts institution committed to presenting a multiplicity of voices, we are dismayed that we must withhold works of art.
In Don DeLillo's 1991 novel Mao II, Scott – the personal assistant to the novelist hero – says that "the withheld work of art is the only eloquence left".
The law as it stands includes sufficient possible grounds for withholding work in progress – future publication, commercial confidentiality, or where the publication of complex data sets is not reasonably practicable.
Through David Bell, burned-out executive in Americana, creepy writer Bill Gray in Mao II, and of course, sad, mad Lee Harvey Oswald in Libra, DeLillo has come to be regarded as a brilliant but shady Clare Quilty type, paring through the American undergrowth, throwing out chunks of Confucian wisdom such as: "The withheld work of art is the only eloquence left".
The ill employee, whose name is being withheld, works for Raytheon, which manages the United States Antarctic research program.
When a new Ph.D decides to withhold her work, she is really saying to her professional colleagues, do not judge my research and analysis until I am ready to publish in print.
