Former Qatar Museums employee Mikolai Napieralski has published an article on Quartz this week, pointing to the end of the country’s oil-boom, a drastically slashed budget, and increasingly conservative leadership as causes for the decline of the Qataris’ presence in the art market.  “These days, the organization is a shadow of its former self, and its international staff—and ambition—are long gone,” he writes. “And that $250 million Cezanne and the $300 million Gauguin? Your guess is as good as mine.”
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