MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND THE RIOPELLE PROJECT

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MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND THE RIOPELLE PROJECT -
By Bernard Bujold -
The Riopelle project at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is cancelled for lack of financial means. Nathalie Bondil, the former director of the Museum who was fired, was the one who had put this project forward. She refused to comment on the abandonment of the project by the new management. 
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