It’s the biggest donation to a cultural institution in Australian history, and it took some wooing.
National Gallery of Victoria director Tony Ellwood spent a year wooing one of the country’s wealthiest families with the offer of naming rights for a new home of contemporary arts in return for a donation of $100 million.
as the Premier’s “go-to billionaire”, but a spokesperson for the Premier declined to reveal whether he had played any role in negotiations. The new building, which will be called The Fox: NGV Contemporary, will be the centrepiece of the $1.7 billion transformation of the Melbourne Arts Precinct. Also included in that plan is a refurbishment of the State Theatre, creation of a new tiered garden and open-air performance space, and significant upgrades to infrastructure.“There isn’t a figure, we’re still working through all the intricacies of what exactly that will be,” Ellwood said on Tuesday.
“We haven’t actually done the numbers,” she added, “but I would think this is a much bigger legacy today than Felton’s estate back in the 1900s.”
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