Kunstinstituut Melly
Contemporary art institute in a former school, famed for its billboard of a woman who hates her job.
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This guide to Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam is about the woman smiling down from the corner of the building, and the three words printed beside her. It follows the Canadian artist Ken Lum and his nineteen ninety show at a newly opened art centre on this street, and the neighbours who noticed what hung on its wall. Best heard on the pavement across the street, where you can take in the whole billboard.
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