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The David Roche Foundation
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Australia's newest museum – one that focuses on the decorative arts – was launched by Paul Keating on Friday, 3 June. (It is open to the public, by appointment only, from 7 June 2016.) Positioned in North Adelaide, The David Roche Foundation is home to a superb collection of European ...
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Arts Update attended the opening in Adelaide. While some eyebrows were raised by the former prime minister's assertion that 'in the decorative arts it was all over by 1810', he made compelling remarks about the importance of decorative arts and design of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As he explained, neo-classical decorative arts are not simply beautiful but useless objects: as part of an Enlightenment philosophical framework, they represent a 'huge force which really changed the world and set up the modern political age'. Keating spoke of 'the energy of classicism'. He praised the quality of Roche's collection and his philanthropic foundation: 'a great adornment to the City of Adelaide and to the state of South Australia ... this may end up being Adelaide's MONA but far more sophisticated than MONA.'

To arrange a visit to The David Roche Foundation, visit the website at www.rochefoundation.com.au

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