Friday

MOMA And The Bankers

New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) shows an exhibition of works from an art collection owned by the Swiss banking giant UBS. The exhibition celebrates the bank's gift of 44 pieces of art to MOMA and includes paintings, sculptures and photographs by 50 leading international artists. The UBS Art Collection is almost like a who's who of modern art. It includes outstanding works by de Kooning, Freud, Lichtenstein, Warhol and Hirst. All the gifts once hung in the offices of PaineWebber, until the business was purchased by UBS for 12 billion dollars in 2000. Irish Art