A new contemporary photography museum will open in Stockholm this month, drawing tears from Abba fans everywhere.
Later this month, Stockholm will unveil its first-ever photography museum. It'll spring from the shell of an early 20th-century pier building, a triumph of historic preservation in a city whose building stock dates back more than 700 years. It'll showcase the most famous photogs around (Annie Leibovitz, Joel-Peter Witkin, Lennart Nilsson), raising Stockholm's middling status in the international arts scene. And on the day that it opens--May 21, 2010--Abba fans everywhere will shed a tear.
That's because the building was supposed to house the Abba Museum, a spangly, bell-bottomed homage to the fourth best-selling musical act of all time. Now, there'll be in utero babies instead of catsuits, Brad Pitt, Las Vegas instead of Björn and Agnetha in 3-D. For true devotees, it'll be their own personal (you'll excuse the pun) Waterloo.
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Later this month, Stockholm will unveil its first-ever photography museum. It'll spring from the shell of an early 20th-century pier building, a triumph of historic preservation in a city whose building stock dates back more than 700 years. It'll showcase the most famous photogs around (Annie Leibovitz, Joel-Peter Witkin, Lennart Nilsson), raising Stockholm's middling status in the international arts scene. And on the day that it opens--May 21, 2010--Abba fans everywhere will shed a tear.
That's because the building was supposed to house the Abba Museum, a spangly, bell-bottomed homage to the fourth best-selling musical act of all time. Now, there'll be in utero babies instead of catsuits, Brad Pitt, Las Vegas instead of Björn and Agnetha in 3-D. For true devotees, it'll be their own personal (you'll excuse the pun) Waterloo.
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- 5/11/2010
- by Suzanne LaBarre
- Fast Company
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