Moco Museum | Amsterdam
Contemporary art museum in a 1904 villa, featuring original Banksy works and rotating modern art exhibitions.
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This guide to Moco Museum in Amsterdam opens at a 2018 Sotheby's auction, where a winning bid triggered a hidden shredder inside a Banksy canvas — a work later renamed Love Is in the Bin. It moves from that auction room to the museum itself, which opened its Banksy show that same year without his permission, and to Villa Alsberg, the 1904 mansion built by Eduard Cuypers, nephew of the Rijksmuseum's architect, as a private family home. It considers what an unauthorized exhibition of a street artist's work really means.
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