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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Lifestyle
Ian Warden

Why visiting art galleries can leave you flat on the floor

Readers, let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries, and especially with Canberra's National Gallery of Australia and National Portrait Gallery. There's too much art in them. Far, far too much.

The Ngura Puka Epic Country exhibition leaves the viewer dizzied and unnerved. Picture APY Art Centre Collective

If you are seeking a Trump-avoiding/Hanson-forgetting respite from today's epidemic of "news fatigue" by leaving your devices behind and going to an art gallery then beware. Alas at art galleries another species of fatigue, the famous "museum fatigue" (first described in 1910) awaits you.

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