Larry Gagosian. (Courtesy Getty Images)

Larry Gagosian cannot stop opening art galleries! The New York Times' Carol Vogel reports today that Mr. Gagosian has a second gallery in the works in Paris, where he first opened in the fall of 2010. This will be the dealer's 12th gallery, and will be situated at Le Bourget, home to an airport for private planes.

Here's Ms. Vogel:

The gallery will be in a converted 1950s factory and comprise 5,413 square feet on two levels, with a 1,115-square-foot mezzanine overlooking the main space. The French architect Jean Nouvel is designing it.

“I was interested in getting a bigger space for larger pieces,” Mr. Gagosian said. “All the artists I talked to are very enthusiastic about it. It’s only about 20 minutes from the heart of the city, about the same time it takes to get from the Upper East Side to Chelsea.”

First up in the fall is a painting show and a major sculpture by Gagosian artist Anselm Kiefer, who shows in Paris with Thaddaeus Ropac, who has also been busy expanding his gallery space. It's getting wild over there in Paris.

A rendering of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. (Courtesy Nouvel Ateliers)

After a number of delays reportedly related to the worldwide economic crisis and its own fiscal health, Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development and Investment Company is moving forward with plans to build a branch of Paris's Louvre on Saadiyat Island in the emirate, the UAE's The National paper reports.

The TDIC has asked contractors to file applications to complete the ambitious building project, which is now years behind its original schedule. The Khaleej Times has a nice blurb about what the Jean Nouvel-designed project will look like when it's finished:

[T]he 24,000-square metre Louvre Abu Dhabi is conceived as a complex of pavilions, plazas, alleyways and canals, evoking the image of a city floating on the sea.

The National notes that the timetable for the various projects on Saadiyat Island going forward calls for the Zayed National Museum to open in 2016, and the Guggenheim to open in 2017.