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MONA (Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart)
Apr. 30th, 2011 07:36 pmBack from Tasmania.
We went down last Wednesday to visit MONA - the Museum of Old and New Art. It opened in Hobart at the start of the year (A. was working at the FOMA music festival that accompanied the opening.)
MONA is a private museum. All the artwork is owned by one person, David Walsh. Walsh is a Tasmanian who made millions from gambling, and decided the best way to spend all his money was free music festivals and to build a whopping great big art museum.
Walsh describes MONA as an adult Disneyland.
I would describe it as bugfuck insane. And astonishing. And essential.
( Here's why... )
On the ferry back, we got talking to another couple. They said they would have travelled across the world to see this gallery. They said it was better than the Guggenheim in New York.
If you have any interest in modern art, you need to see it.
http://mona.net.au/
We went down last Wednesday to visit MONA - the Museum of Old and New Art. It opened in Hobart at the start of the year (A. was working at the FOMA music festival that accompanied the opening.)
MONA is a private museum. All the artwork is owned by one person, David Walsh. Walsh is a Tasmanian who made millions from gambling, and decided the best way to spend all his money was free music festivals and to build a whopping great big art museum.
Walsh describes MONA as an adult Disneyland.
I would describe it as bugfuck insane. And astonishing. And essential.
( Here's why... )
On the ferry back, we got talking to another couple. They said they would have travelled across the world to see this gallery. They said it was better than the Guggenheim in New York.
If you have any interest in modern art, you need to see it.
http://mona.net.au/
