Carlos Slim's shimmering new art palace
- January 26, 2010 13:54
Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim, whose estimated net worth of $59 billion makes him one of the world's richest people, is making waves with a bold new art museum planned in Mexico City. His art collection of 66,000 pieces, from 15th-c. European masters to a bounty of Rodin sculptures, will go on display in an undulating, nuclear reactor-shaped aluminum building described as "digital baroque" style...