http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/arts/design/guggenheims-helsinki-outpost-loses-government-funding.html 2016-09-14 18:39:09 Guggenheim’s Helsinki Outpost Loses Government Funding One of Finland’s ruling parties has vetoed using state money to support the project. === Plans for a Guggenheim museum in Helsinki have been thrown into doubt, now that one of Finland’s three ruling parties has vetoed government funding for the project. “There will be no state money for this venture,” Timo Soini, leader of the populist Finns party, said in a blog post quoted by Ari Wiseman, the deputy director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, said, “We are a little less optimistic than we were a few months ago but we remain committed and understand there are other ways to move the project forward.” Mr. Wiseman added that the Guggenheim was “working closely” with the Guggenheim Helsinki Supporting Foundation, a consortium of local stakeholders, “about what the next steps could be” in building alternative sources of financing. Last year, the museum The project has been plagued by uncertainty ever since it was