LONDON. Global giant Ikea Retail Estate is planning multi-million pound commissions by major contemporary artists, including Piotr Uklanski, Jeppe Hein and Jim Lambie, as part of an “airport-sized” Moscow-based development due to open in 2012. The works are part of a plan to roll out mixed-use... >>>
African contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu is the first winner, and will have her work shown at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin >>>
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Critics include Whitney Biennial curator Francesco Bonami who says Italy "deserves Sgarbi" because of its antipathy towards contemporary art >>>
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Mohamed Atta offered artefacts to German archaeologist >>>
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British Museum says the finding of related texts is "very significant" but Iranian cultural heritage head threatening to cut cultural ties to the UK >>>
France selects Christian Boltanski while Iceland chooses Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson >>>
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The painting’s future remains in limbo, though the Prince is offering to lend it to the museum for public display >>>
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The Australian artist’s three-week sojourn with troops will form basis of new work >>>
Any works found could go to the 18th-century writer’s restored neo-gothic mansion in west London >>>
UK's principal baroque country house acquired in lieu of taxes >>>



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