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Wednesday 10 Mar 10
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 >>>
Thieves make off with a massive, 100-kg banner hung on the Rotterdam art centre's façade as it was being dismantled >>>
British Library’s case for ownership strengthened by an agreement signed by the Archbishop of Sinai and a Tsarist official in 1869 >>>
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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 >>>
Pastor hopes “miracle” may provide alternative solution >>>
Launching a four-year partnership with the High Museum, the paintings will leave the UK for the first time in over two centuries to tour the US later this year >>>
The contemporary gallery is in crisis with a deficit that has ballooned from £100,000 to £1m in a year >>>
Roberto Cecchi named as the new secretary general for heritage as nine high-ranking superintendents retire >>>
New Orleans' contemporary art exhibition has been postponed until 2011 due to lack of funding >>>
But it may not be legally possible to sue Spain in the US courts >>>
The painting’s future remains in limbo, though the Prince is offering to lend it to the museum for public display >>>
Joan Banach is suing to be reinstated onto the board of the Dedalus Foundation >>>
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 >>>
Massive redundancies at London's ICA, but will senior heads roll?
Installation by Russian collective AES+F stolen from gallery
