Ghent City Pavilion
Open timber-and-glass canopy for markets and concerts, beside a restored historic bronze bell.
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This guide to the City Pavilion on Ghent's Emile Braunplein starts not with the timber canopy but with the cracked bronze bell resting beside it, cast in sixteen sixty from the remains of an older one. It moves to the winter of twenty eighteen, when the artist Kris Martin and the S.M.A.K. museum gave that bell an unusual job, and to a line by the poet John Donne that named the project. Best heard standing under the canopy, within sight of the bell.
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