Kunsthal Rotterdam
Glass-and-concrete exhibition hall designed by Rem Koolhaas, opened in nineteen ninety-two.
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This guide to the Kunsthal in Rotterdam follows the night in October 2012 when seven loaned paintings, by Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, Monet and Lucian Freud among others, left the building, and the long trail that ran from Museumpark to a village in eastern Romania. It also turns on a novelist who wrote a book about the theft and then received an anonymous letter. Best heard outside, facing Rem Koolhaas's glass and concrete hall.
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