[mac] Musee d'art contemporain de la Ville de Marseille
Former private gallery turned flexible modern-art hall, its nine identical bays still hung anew each season.
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This guide to the Musee d'art contemporain in Marseille starts with a factory-style roof over a palace-grade marble floor, and with Gustav Rau, the German collector who commissioned the hall in the pine grove of Bonneveine for paintings that never arrived. You'll meet the city museum that ran out of walls, the artists who filled the space instead, and a summer when the galleries were given over to sport. Best heard standing in the main hall, where the guide begins by asking you to look up.
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