LATE NIGHTS AT THE MCA
- Author:
- Amelia G
- Posted:
- Monday, 25 May 2009
Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art is on a roll. The current exhibitions Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years and I walk the line: new Australian drawing are generating massive public interest and the last two months have seen their highest ever attendance records. The museum welcomed more than 70 000 visitors in April alone.
With such busy days the MCA has a very early bedtime of 5pm. Sadly, for all the nine-to-fivers in the CBD this puts after-work visits to the city’s contemporary art museum out of the question. Can’t they stay up a little later once in a while? They’ve got a prime evening location and even the Art Gallery of NSW has their popular weekly Art After Hours night where they’re open until 9pm.
Well, from May 29 the MCA will be trying it out, staying wide-awake until 9pm for three consecutive Fridays. After hours adventures include spotlight tours of exhibitions and a free program of talks and performances for the Creative Sydney event series. From Wednesdays-Fridays there will also be a bar open from 5.30pm till late. That’s more like it! There’s something very appealing about museums after dark – here’s hoping this will plant some more late night seeds for the MCA’s future.
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Story posted on Monday, 25 May 2009, filed under Gallery & Museums. Follow responses via the RSS feed.
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