Lanyon redevelopment leaves Nolan Gallery to rot

all very weird

Smackbang said :

Or perhaps people who leave bequests should not make them conditional and seek to enforce their will on those who will benefit from their requests.

The main trouble here, Smackbang, is that the gift wasn’t conditional enough — in the sense that while everyone who was involved in the negotiations with Nolan or the early days of the gallery knows he said he wanted the paintings to be kept at Lanyon, but (thus far) there’s nothing in writing.

Also, it wasn’t a bequest; Nolan was very much alive in 1974 when he made the gift.

Or perhaps people who leave bequests should not make them conditional and seek to enforce their will on those who will benefit from their requests.

‘classic donut effect’ indeed.

Yep, and this forum will make him feel so loved and accepted that he will embrace change immediately.

Perhaps we need a secret tunnel that starts somewhere in CMAG, and magically whisks people to the Lanyon Gallery… That way all the posturing and bickering between Team Nolan and the freaking monkeys in suits that seem to occupy the higher eschelons of this fine city will end.

Stanhopes refusal to take any leadership on the issue of the Nolan collection exposes him as the little more than a maggot. Why on earth he chooses to be an arse-puppet for a clique of black turtle-neck skivvy wearing douche-bags and social parasites content to drain the public coffers under the pretence of public art remains a mystery.

The Nolan estate should recall the collection at once.

Since Nolan did no unintelligible and uninterpretable bad public art, he has no relevance in Chairman Stanhopes Peoples Democratic Republic of Canberra.

Let’s face it, Stanhope is an uncultured and gormless peasant and his government a talentless void of second rate numpties. You can’t expect preserving part of our national heritage to be high on their agenda.