How a Grain Silo in Norway Became a Global Modern Art Destination

Plus: “Art of Burning Man” curator Nora Atkinson takes the lead at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design.

A former grain silo, the Kristiansand Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, Norway, is now home to a collection of 5,000 modernist artworks.

Photographer: Alan Williams/Kristiansand Kunstsilo

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