The Lithuanian government recently gave the go-ahead for construction of a new art museum in the country's capital of Vilnius. The $117 million Zaha Hadid-designed building will be a joint venture between Lithuania, Russia's State Hermitage Museum, and the Guggenheim and is scheduled to open in 2013. Officials said that the new museum will include an art and information center dedicated to the Litvaks — Lithuanian Ashkenazi Jews — 95% of whom did not survive the Nazi's World War II occupation. In a related story, London is angling for a Guggenheim of its own, to follow the 2012 Olympics.