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Written by James Oyedijo: We’ve been racking our brains trying to figure out if anyone has ever tried to tour an entire museum before. Sure, there are plenty of traveling exhibitions, but an entire museum, traveling from city to city we’e pretty sure that’s unprecedented. Leave it to Karl Lagerfeld and the mavericks at Chanel to do just that.

Chanel Mobile Art is a touring exhibition starting February 27 in Hong Kong, it will showcase works by 20 emerging artists, inspired by the elements of Chanel’s emblematic quilted bag. The traveling museum structure (called the Art Container) was designed by architect Zaha Hadid. In addition to Hong Kong, the museum will be in Tokyo, New York, London, Moscow, and Paris…

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Categories: architecture, museums, people | Written by: WJS FEATURES | Date: February 22, 2008

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