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  • noun A facility that holds temporary art exhibitions.

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German Kunsthalle, art hall.

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  • While the French have traditionally been skeptical of involving private enterprise in national historic sites -- and Aillagon has drawn protests in the past for his scheme to turn Versailles into a contemporary art kunsthalle, bringing shows of work by Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami whose opening was covered by ARTINFO France, among others, to the palace -- this project has not met with any real resistance.

    ARTINFO: King or Queen for a Day: Luxury Accommodations at Versailles ARTINFO 2011

  • While the French have traditionally been skeptical of involving private enterprise in national historic sites -- and Aillagon has drawn protests in the past for his scheme to turn Versailles into a contemporary art kunsthalle, bringing shows of work by Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami whose opening was covered by ARTINFO France, among others, to the palace -- this project has not met with any real resistance.

    ARTINFO: King or Queen for a Day: Luxury Accommodations at Versailles ARTINFO 2011

  • While the French have traditionally been skeptical of involving private enterprise in national historic sites -- and Aillagon has drawn protests in the past for his scheme to turn Versailles into a contemporary art kunsthalle, bringing shows of work by Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami whose opening was covered by ARTINFO France, among others, to the palace -- this project has not met with any real resistance.

    ARTINFO: King or Queen for a Day: Luxury Accommodations at Versailles ARTINFO 2011

  • While the French have traditionally been skeptical of involving private enterprise in national historic sites -- and Aillagon has drawn protests in the past for his scheme to turn Versailles into a contemporary art kunsthalle, bringing shows of work by Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami whose opening was covered by ARTINFO France, among others, to the palace -- this project has not met with any real resistance.

    ARTINFO: King or Queen for a Day: Luxury Accommodations at Versailles ARTINFO 2011

  • Schirn Kunsthalle Until June 13 www. schirn-kunsthalle.de Geneva photography

    Time Off: Europe 2010

  • Schirn Kunsthalle Until June 13 www. schirn-kunsthalle.de Geneva photography

    Time Off: Europe 2010

  • Kunsthalle Dusseldorf March 20-May 24 www. kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de Uwe Lausen Uwe Lausen's 'Untitled' (Moon Landing) (1968) on show in Frankfurt.

    Time Off: Europe 2010

  • Kunsthalle Dusseldorf March 20-May 24 www. kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de Uwe Lausen Uwe Lausen's 'Untitled' (Moon Landing) (1968) on show in Frankfurt.

    Time Off: Europe 2010

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  • “Moderate in size, efficiently presented and somewhat stiffly titled “Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens,�? it is not at the Met or any other museum but at the Onassis Cultural Center in Midtown, a kunsthalle-style space, now almost a decade old, devoted to Hellenic culture.�?

    The New York Times, The Glory That Was Greece From a Female Perspective, by Holland Carter, December 18, 2008

    December 20, 2008