The Art Gallery of Western Australia | AGWA
Brutalist state art gallery spanning colonial masterpieces to contemporary Aboriginal works.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth turns on a January two thousand twenty-three protest against Frederick McCubbin's celebrated colonial painting Down on His Luck, when two demonstrators confronted the gallery over a gas company's project on the Burrup Peninsula. You'll hear who they were, what actually happened to the painting that day, and how the case then moved into the Perth Magistrates Court. It also touches the gallery's own eighteen ninety-six purchase of the work, still its most famous holding.
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