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A circular eighteenth-century building once used for trading grain, the Bourse de Commerce reopened in 2021 as the Paris home of the contemporary art collection of the businessman Francois Pinault. The structure began as a corn exchange and later served as the city's commercial exchange, its great rotunda crowned by a glass dome and ringed by a painted panoramic fresco celebrating trade between the continents. After the city granted Pinault a long lease, the Japanese architect Tadao Ando was ent...