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One of the centerpieces of the 2004 Cultural Olympiad program of the summer games is "Monument to Now," a contemporary art exhibition organized by the Deste Foundation. The show, on view June 22 to Dec. 31, will be installed at the foundation's permanent space and in a specially renovated building near the Games' headquarters in the Nea lonia neighborhood. Drawn from the collection of Dakis Joannou, the show was organized by a group of international curators, including Dan Cameron of the New Museum, Alison M. Gingeras of the Centre Pompidou, Massimiliano Gioni of the Fondazione Trussardi, Nancy Spector of the Guggenheim Museum and New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch, who has collaborated with the Deste Foundation on several projects.

The Athens exhibition features works by such high-profile artists as Maurizio Cattelan, Rineke Dijkstra, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gober, Douglas Gordon, Jeff Koons, Liza Lou, Mariko Mori, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Chris Ofili, Matthew Ritchie, Tom Sachs, Gregor Sehneider, Kara Walker and Nari Ward. It is the first exhibition of Joannou's collection in Athens since the 1996 show "Everything That's Interesting Is New."

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