Published: December 29, 2020
With a collection rehang and more kid-friendly public art, the gallery – which boosted tourism in the before-times – now hopes to bring in the neighbours
As the old saying goes, or perhaps it was Belinda Carlisle, “Honey, leave a light on for me.”
During Hobart’s lockdown, the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) did just that with Spectra – Ryoji Ikeda’s 15km tower of white light. A semi-regular fixture at the museum, now it loyally pierced the sky every Saturday night. Hobartians could see it from their windows, the weekly transmission of a message that might be pitched somewhere between “we come in peace” and that of the “hang on in there” kitten.
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