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    It All Started with a Stale Sandwich

    Aug 21, 2019 4 minutes
    Film Review JOHN MCDONALD

    This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the Kaldor Public Art Projects, a testament to the persistence of a Hungarian migrant who needed to share his obsession with an entire city, if not a country. The birthday celebrations will continue to spread the Kaldor gospel via an unorthodox retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), and a feature-length documentary titled It All Started with a Stale Sandwich.

    There have been thirty-four projects in total, the first being Christo’s of 1969, widely viewed as the event that launched the era of Contemporary Art, which consisted of 300 tonnes of specially curated soil lovingly tended for a fortnight.

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