by Jon Lackman | 30 March 2006 | Museums
“For the first time, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen … has opened up his private art collection. Twenty-eight works, some not seen in public for more than 50 years, will be on display under the same metallic, multihued Frank Gehry-designed roof that holds some of the other cool stuff that Allen has collected. Down the hall from Renoir, Seurat and Picasso is Jimi’s guitar, Darth Vader’s helmet and Michael Jackson’s jeweled glove. ‘Is it that much different from Egyptian art being next to Italian art?’ said Paul Hayes Tucker, the exhibit’s curator. ‘It’s all relative.’”
