National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne said Heldens had offered "a quiet but evocative study".
Gallery director Iwona Blazwick said Whiteread's frieze had joined London's repertoire of high-level gilded sculptures.
All the artists are independent, meaning they man their own booths, and there's not a red-dot-wielding gallery director in sight.
It was on the initiative of MK Gallery director Anthony Spira that Pushwagner was invited to show his work in Milton Keynes.
"We're very excited about exhibiting here, " said gallery director Daniel Loganathan.
"The collections are completely safe, " said National Gallery director Milan Knizak.
"As a former power station, Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is an ideal venue for Kraftwerk's explorations of technology, energy and rhythm, " said gallery director Chris Dercon.
The judges who chose his portrait as the winner included Saatchi Gallery director Rebecca Wilson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, well known for his work on The Gruffalo.
New Art Gallery director Stephen Snoddy says the venue had 175, 000 visitors in 2011 and that new flats, shops and a hotel had now been built nearby.
Also in the arts world, Donmar Warehouse artist director Michael Grandage, National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne, artist Gillian Ayres and textile designer Celia Birtwell were appointed CBEs.
The program also comprises speeches by the Director of the National Gallery, the Director of BREDA, the Mayor of Dakar and the Minister of Culture and Tourism as well as sketches performed by the theater group called "Hope of the suburbs".
Edward Winkleman, the gallery's owner and director, explains that most people grab one of each.
We see this in a tomb excavated in 2009 and reassembled in the gallery where, ingeniously, director Willow Weilan Hai Chang repositioned the south wall to allow visitors inside the space.
Dr Nicholas Penny, director of the National Gallery, said he was hopeful of raising the money needed before the December deadline.
But what caused even more of a stir was Mr Pearson Wright's vehement attack on Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, the day after picking up his cheque.
The Merzbarn in the Lake District was made at a desperate time in his life, when Schwitters found himself subsisting, with a serious heart condition, in dank English lodgings on the proceeds of academic portraits and landscapes, despondent that he could not even obtain an interview with the director of the National Gallery in London.
Director Nick Simunovic said the gallery's goals mirror its ones in other parts of the world: to mount "museum-quality exhibitions" and to help serious collectors add to their coffers.
"There's not a whiff of irony involved in Ken's work, " says Dale Lanzone, director of the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery in New York, which is currently showing an exhibition of the artist's work.
However, some experts remain sceptical: "The key thing is that the pose in the newly discovered version can now be linked back to an original concept by Titian, " Bendor Grosvenord, co-director of the Philip Mould gallery in London told The Art Newspaper.
"A whole new world opened up with the introduction of acrylics and canvas -- the changing of materials let their creativity just really open up, " said Adrian Mibus, director of Whitford Fine Art gallery in London, which is currently holding a selling exhibition of Aboriginal art.
The most important thing to remember about attending at Art Basel, (unless you are a director at a high-end gallery tallying up the sales) is not to take it all that seriously.
Nicole Berry, director of Manhattan's Nathan Bernstein Gallery, is an art historian, curator, adviser and critic.
The site offers Images of Freedom -- a gallery of art with weekly features curated by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, director of Harvard University's W.E.
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The gallery's glory days came in the late 19th century when Otto Gutekunst became its director and moved the firm into Old Master paintings.
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