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Simon Hare's avatar

There was some kind of bequest (?) from a family named Power... Same bunch also had a hand in establishing our the Museum of Contemporary Art at Circular Quay in Sydney.

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The Power Institute gallery was first to exhibit Juan Davila's STUPID AS A PAINTER (? 1983) which was shut down by nsw morality police. Later exhibited to wide acclaimb👍🏿😎😘

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Clint Collide's avatar

Thanks for the share, Simon. Reminds me of all the hoopla here in the US in the late 1980s and early 1990s about National Endowment Of The Arts funding several LGTBQ artists and photographers. Clutch-the-pearls religious zealots annoy the hell out me. But they did help me find some work I wouldn’t have known about if they hadn’t popped off. Love how that works. Same happened in Germany when Hitler did his “degenerate” art exhibition. 2+ million people flocked to see it. Not all to mock it. :-)

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