[15] This show enabled world - famous international artists to show in a besieged part of the West Bank by inviting each of them to produce an idea for an artwork that could be remade on site, thereby getting around the Israeli Army checkpoint controls and circumventing the need to
ship valuable art work in and out of the country.
As the heir to the fortune and
art collection of his father, the Greek
shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos, Philip S. Niarchos is believed to have one of the most
valuable art collections in the world.