Opening nights and studio visits:How Melbourne’s richest art donors are cultivated
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Opening nights and studio visits:How Melbourne’s richest art donors are cultivated

The City of Melbourne is hitting up the city’s wealthiest philanthropists in a bid to secure funding for a public artwork it has commissioned for Southbank by New Zealand artist Michael Parekowhai.

  • byCara Waters

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