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Francois Pinault emerged as the sole candidate to turn a disused Venice customs building into a contemporary-arts center by June 2009 after a rival bid by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was thrown out for being incomplete.

Read full article (Bloomberg April 5, 2007)

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