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The agency believes very strongly
that the cultural world should have a say.
It also reveals the stubborn streak of parochialism,
but it is very difficult to meet its demands.

Layers of neglect had to be dusted
and chiselled different cities
around this most famous of seas.

Ideas
for the planet's most unusual
gallery space station
which orbits Earth

400 kilometres into space,
these women solo performers
had been swept into oblivion,
trying to look funky and aloof.