Among them are powerful figure studies, like Annibale's "Triton Sounding a Conch Shell" (probably around 1597), one of the many preparatory drawings for the Farnese Palace project.
Glen Neil, the dreadlocked director of the Palace Project, the community centre that hosted Clegg in Streatham, makes the comparison, speaking of "the Obama effect".
Hurriyet says the palace project was controversial because hundreds of trees were cut down to make space for it, in what had been a forest reserve bequeathed to the nation by modern Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The peace-palace project will continue, movement leaders say, despite the multimillion-dollar costs and the limited success so far.
And the breaking news is that in recognition of the scale and ambition of this scheme to set up special spaces where both science and art can be the subjects of play, the Fun Palaces project was told last week that it will now receive a substantial Arts Council Exceptional Award, possibly only the second or third ever to be awarded.
From June 13 to July 15, they will present "The Palace of Projects," originally commissioned and exhibited by Artangel, a nonprofit group that organizes art projects in England and at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
"The Palace of Projects is a summation of Kabakov's work," Mr. Eccles said.
"The Palace of Projects" is a collection of 65 model environments with explanatory texts, drawings and sketches that explore the improvement of the human condition.
The spiraling model for the "Palace of Projects" (42 feet tall when it was shown in New York four years ago) had been reduced to a pile of pickup sticks.
In the 70s and 80s, the monument became, for a new generation of Russian artists, an emblem of an avantgardism that might have been; Ilya Kabakov's installation The Palace of Projects (1995-2001) reimagined the structure as a museum for utopian schemes, both personal and political.
