The big picture
The Big Picture
The Australian
26 September 2009
Corrie Perkin
Collector John Kaldor's private passion resulted in some extremely public displays of contemporary art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapping of Little Bay became the first in a series of significant art events over 40 years known as the Kaldor Public Art Projects. Sponsored and marketed by Kaldor, prominent international artists such as Gilbert and George, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Jeff Koons (whose 1995 installation Puppy, a 12m-high west highland terrier made of flowers, sat outside Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art for three months), Vanessa Beecroft, Barry McGhee, Bill Viola and Gregor Schneider have brought their work to Australian locations
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