On the corner of Foster Street, Sydney – between the boutique hotels, “contemporary office spaces” in converted warehouses, the assisted living facility and the fancy cocktail bars – sits the Hotel Hollywood. “Everyone has a story about the Hollywood,” says Rupert McEvoy, one of three curators behind a chaotic group show opening above the pub on Friday.
Hours before doors open, the trio are still counting and cataloguing works, but they estimate there are more than 150 pieces by at least 100 artists, including big names such as Blak Douglas, Lindy Lee and Ken Done, and emerging and first-timers too – among them, John Safran. Together, they’ve been lovingly crammed into the crumbling apartment formerly occupied by city legend Doris Goddard, unchanged and opened to the public for the first time.
