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He was a leading figure of the Soviet pop art scene, founding the Moscow Conceptualists, which opposed official government art, as well as the Sots art movement, which remixed Soviet slogans. In 2015, he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. "I have been working on connecting the space of the painting with the space of our life," he said in a 2017 interview.
A vast $1bn museum billed as the world's largest archaeological facility dedicated to a single civilisation will open outside Cairo on Saturday, after countless delays over the course of its two-decade construction. The Grand Egyptian Museum, located a mile away from the pyramids of Giza, covers an area of 470,000 sq metres. The complex was announced in 1992 but it was not until 2005 that construction began.