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• Galleries Say Melbourne Art Fair 2012 One Of The Best

  13 August 2012

  The spectacular 13th biennial Melbourne Art Fair came to an end on Sunday 5 August, having had visitation of 27,000 and having generated in excess of $8 million in sales, higher than many expected in these tough economic times for the art sector.

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• Volunteering for Melbourne Art Fair 2012

  18 May 2012

  Do you love contemporary art and want to assist with Australia's premier Fair and public exposition of contemporary art and one of the country's most dynamic visual arts events?

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• Melbourne Art Fair gets a Global Footprint

  10 May 2012

  The Chairman of The Melbourne Art Foundation [MAF], Ken Fehily, today announced it had signed a management agreement with UK based Single Market Events Limited [SME] and its associated Australian company, Art Fairs Australia Pty Ltd [AFA], retaining AFA as MAF's agent to assist with the planning and management of the Melbourne Art Fairs from 2014 to 2032.

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• Announcing: Melbourne Art Fair 2012 Commission Artist

  08 May 2012

  Announcing leading Australian artist Ian Burns as the Melbourne Art Foundation Commission Artist for Melbourne Art Fair 2012.

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• Bill Nuttall retires & Ken Fehily appointed new MAF Chairman

  07 May 2012

  The board of the Melbourne Art Foundation [MAF] today announced Bill Nuttall had retired as Chairman of the Foundation and it had appointed Ken Fehily as the new chairman, effective immediately.

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The Melbourne Art Fair is the art world's equivalent of the gathering of the tribes. It shrinks the distance between galleries, artists and institutions spread across an entire continent. The concentrated energy inside the Exhibition Building dissolves the usual formalities of communication between gallerists, curators and arts administrators; suddenly they're all speed-dating.

Dr Christopher McAuliffe, Director, The Ian Potter Museum of Art