SMAK - Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art
Contemporary art museum in a former casino wing, holding post-war works by Beuys and Belgian artists.
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This guide to S.M.A.K., Ghent's museum of contemporary art in a former casino wing of Citadelpark, goes back to the summer of nineteen eighty, when Joseph Beuys filled six secondhand metal racks with signed packets of East German groceries. It follows the city councillors who argued over buying them, the curator Jan Hoet's landmark exhibition behind it all, and the hard question of what a museum should keep when its art is made of food. Listen near the collection galleries, where the museum's conservators still tend the work.
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