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The art of dying

David Walsh sees fear of death and access to sex as integral to old and new art

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

‘People can go and die [in my science museum] – and then I want to bury them,’ says David Walsh looking me straight in the eye. Australia’s infamous multi-millionaire, art collector, and gambler-turned author, is not joking. In 2011 Walsh opened his private Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in his hometown of Hobart, Tasmania.

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