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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
James Norman

An epic Melbourne art crawl: how many gallery openings can I cram in in one night?

James Norman on a bike outside a gallery
James Norman arrives at Collingwood gallery Everfresh Studio. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

There’s a particular thrill in discovering new, interesting spaces in your own city – but even as a Melbourne local and a longtime art lover I find it near impossible to keep up with the independent openings happening in my city.

That’s why I’m grateful for the work of Charles Lai who, for more than a decade, has been doing the legwork. Lai runs an accessible free calendar populated with details of dozens of upcoming art openings and, like a sort of Bill Cunningham for Melbourne, has become one of the city’s most active art chroniclers on Instagram.

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