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  • But to see Venice from the Dogana is a rarer experience.

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

  • French billionaire Francois Pinault feels the tug of noblesse oblige at a time like this: The owner of Christie’s will display some of his vast art collection at the Palazzo Grassi and is opening yet another art showcase at the Dogana, which is in the old Customs House.

    Too Haute for Commerce: The Venice Biennale 2009

  • French billionaire Francois Pinault feels the tug of noblesse oblige at a time like this: The owner of Christie’s will display some of his vast art collection at the Palazzo Grassi and is opening yet another art showcase at the Dogana, which is in the old Customs House.

    Too Haute for Commerce: The Venice Biennale 2009

  • Doubt in Venice Punta della Dogana, Venice, April 10 to end of 2012

    Don't Miss: April 9-15 2011

  • Punta Della Dogana "In Praise of Doubt" includes works with the theme of uncertainty.

    Don't Miss: April 9-15 2011

  • In what some called the "Dogana effect," the opening was also seen as having helped boost attendance at Art Basel, the respected contemporary art fair in Switzerland later that month.

    Top Billionaire Art Collectors Keren Blankfeld 2009

  • Suffering from one of its worst years in recent memory, the art world got a boost in June when French billionaire François Pinault opened his new modern art museum, the Punta della Dogana, in Venice's former customs house at the entrance of the Grand Canal.

    Top Billionaire Art Collectors Keren Blankfeld 2009

  • And just up the Grand Canal, wedged between the splendidly restored Dogana, or Custom's House, and the ecstatically over-the-top octagonal Church of Santa Maria Della Salute, is an ad for

    Burning Bridges in Venice 2010

  • There will be a fantastic new contemporary art museum built in the old customs house at Punta della Dogana by Pinault, the French financier who owns Palazzo Grassi.

    Breaking news: two Venetian restaurants open in Venice 2008

  • On a beautiful evening, with the most wonderful light reflecting off of the canal ... a kind of transparent green-blue aquamarine ... we jump, in evening clothes and shoes, off Bianca's little boat and enter the square in front of the Dogana.

    Barbara Isles: A Postcard from the Venice Biennale 2009

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