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On Sunday, November 2, the Gulf Emirate of Abu Dhabi offered visitors a sneak peek of several artworks to be displayed at its forthcoming Guggenheim museum. Nineteen of the two-hundred artworks acquired by Abu Dhabi will remain on public display from Wednesday, November 5, through January 2015.

The exhibition “Seeing through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi” presents artworks specifically acquired for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi as well as two key loans from its partner institution, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, one of three museums being built on the windswept Saadiyat Island in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has been a quieter presence than the two other institutions there. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, which is scheduled to open next year, and the Zayed National Museum, created by the British architect Norman Foster and to be completed in two years, have each had exhibitions at Manarat Al Saadiyat, the island’s exhibition and visitor center, offering previews of their institutions. Now it is the Guggenheim’s turn.