Georges Pompidou Center
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The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art in New York had been vying for the right to run museums at the cultural center, which was to be several times the size of Lincoln Center. The Pompidou Center had persuaded President Jacques Chirac of France to visit here in October 2004 to make its case, while Thomas Krens, the director of the Guggenheim Foundation, had publicly described the initiative as the most exciting opportunity in the world because of the scale and the location. But the plan has been mired in controversy for more than a year, with local artists saying that Western cultural institutions were playing too large a role, while populists denounced early versions of the plan as too generous to developers. The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art in New York had been vying for the right to run museums at the cultural center, which was to be several times the size of Lincoln Center. The Pompidou Center had persuaded President Jacques Chirac of France to visit here in October 2004 to make its case, while Thomas Krens, the director of the Guggenheim Foundation, had publicly described the initiative as 'the most exciting opportunity in the world because of the scale and the location'. 