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Making Art Public: 50 Years of Kaldor Public Art Projects

‘It’s surreal that this great project happened here,’ gushed Agatha Gothe-Snape about Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s (1968-69), which covered one million square feet of Sydney’s coastline at Little Bay 50 years ago. The contemporary conceptual artist is modestly involved in celebrating it by finding readers to sit in the exhibition each day studying a chosen book. Two artworks from the Kaldor history will also be reprised – first Allora

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