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NGV boasts new contemporary art gallery will be ‘twice as big’ as Sydney’s – Sydney Morning Herald
The new NGV Contemporary Museum to be built in Melbourne’s arts precinct will be almost as big as London’s spectacular Tate Modern, says NGV head Tony Ellwood.
A plan of the new arts precinct.
“There’s been no compromise in terms of scale,” said Tony Ellwood, director of the National Gallery of Victoria, who said the building will be a “game changer” for the Australian arts scene.
“We could have gone with 1000 different variables, but we pitched (to the government) a building that will last 100 years.”
The government had resisted the temptation to make a “nice quiet addition” to the NGV, instead choosing to make a big impact with a dedicated building,…
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