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The 99 is a comic book featuring a team of superheroes based on the principles of Islamic culture and religion. It's now joined forces with America's DC Comics who publish Superman, Batman and Wonderwoman. We talk to The 99's originator about why these superheroes are getting together.
The Jameel International Art Prize honours contemporary artists inspired by Islamic craft. Bidisha went to see the short-listed works and talked to the exhibition's curator, Tim Stanley.
As a huge new satellite city development forges ahead in South Korea, what will it be like to live in a life built from scratch?
Tim Marlow talks to Harriett from Venice, in the week that the famous Venice Biennale art festival opens.
The Vietnam art world is trying to tackle the issue of copied paintings that plague the National Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi.
The avante-garde opera director Peter Sellars is such a big fan of Ethiopian artist Elias Sime's work, that he's co-curated an exhibition in Los Angeles. Reporter Laura Hubber discovers what makes his art so unique.
British artist Damien Hirst has just opened his largest ever solo exhibition in the Ukranian capital Kiev. Entitled Requiem it features his most famous works, including the pickled calf with the golden horns, but also some new oil paintings.
For many years Tyree Guyton, a resident of Detroit, has been decorating vacant houses with colourful junk - items the city's other residents had thrown away. Known as the Heidelberg Project it now covers more than two blocks in the east of the city.
The Strand sent BBC correspondent Michael Voss to Cuba's 10th Biennale Art Festival. He took a look at the Cuban artists, and some American artists who are exhibiting in Cuba for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century.
Polish artist Goshka Macuga and art critic Tim Marlow talk to Mark about a new installation featuring a full size tapestry copy of Pablo Picasso's Guernica painting.
President Obama brings new art to the White House.
As a major exhibition opens in London charting the life and career of the 20th century's towering figure in architecture.
The Strand visists a new major exhibition of Russian Constructivism.
Andrea Palladio defined the Classical style of 16th century Italy.
Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann shows us around a new exhibition dedicated to her life and career.
Shepard Fairey's portrait of Obama became the image of the 2008 Presidential campaign.
A place chosen by the United Nations for special protection because of their cultural importance.
Yoko Ono talks about her art exhibition in China and Europe.
Known as the Pope of Indian Political Pop Art.
Frank Gehry's first ever building in London, The Serpentine Pavillion.
