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An epic Melbourne art crawl: how many gallery openings can I cram in in one night?
Covering 15km and six suburbs on an e-bike, James Norman discovers vibrant artist-run spaces, crowds spilling on to pavements and a garbage bin of ice-cold beer There’s a particular thrill in discovering new, interesting spaces in your own city – but even as a Melbourne local and a longtime art lover I find it near impossible to keep up with the independent openings happening in my city. That’s why I’m grateful for the work of Charles Lai who, for more than a decade, has been doing the legwork. Lai runs an accessible free calendar populated with details of dozens of upcoming art openings, and, like a sort of Bill Cunningham for Melbourne, has become one of the city’s most active art chroniclers on Instagram. Continue reading...
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Covering 15km and six suburbs on an e-bike, James Norman discovers vibrant artist-run spaces, crowds spilling on to pavements and a garbage bin of ice-cold beer There’s a particular thrill in discovering new, interesting spaces in your own city – but even as a Melbourne local and a longtime art lover I find it near impossible to keep up with the independent openings happening in my city. That’s why I’m grateful for the work of Charles Lai who, for more than a decade, has been doing the legwork. Lai runs an accessible free calendar populated with details of dozens of upcoming art openings, and, like a sort of Bill Cunningham for Melbourne, has become one of the city’s most active art chroniclers on Instagram. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, An epic Melbourne art crawl: how many gallery openings can I cram in in one night?, Covering 15km and six suburbs on an e-bike, James Norman discovers vibrant artist-run spaces, crowds spilling on to pavements and a garbage bin of ice-cold beer There’s a particular thrill in discovering new, interesting spaces in your own city – but even as a Melbourne local and a longtime art lover I find it near impossible to keep up with the independent openings happening in my city. That’s why I’m grateful for the work of Charles Lai who, for more than a decade, has been doing the legwork. Lai runs an accessible free calendar populated with details of dozens of upcoming art openings, and, like a sort of Bill Cunningham for Melbourne, has become one of the city’s most active art chroniclers on Instagram. Continue reading…
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