National Gallery of Victoria
Bluestone-clad art museum entered through a cascading water wall, with a Great Hall ceiling of hand-cut stained glass overhead.
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This guide to the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne turns on one night in August 1986, when Picasso's Weeping Woman, bought the year before for a record Australian gallery price, vanished from the wall behind a guard's back. It follows the strange trail that opened afterward: a cryptic card, a self-styled group calling itself the Australian Cultural Terrorists, and a string of letters demanding more arts funding and threatening to burn the canvas. Walk through the cascading water wall at the entrance and look up at the Great Hall's stained-glass ceiling as you listen.
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