A week before the Christmas break, the visual arts sector awoke to the news headlines: ‘National Gallery of Australia chair projects $265 million shortfall over 10 years, jobs could go’ – ABC News and ‘National Gallery of Australia may have to charge entry fees and close two days a week to cut costs’ – The Canberra Times.
‘I certainly don’t think it’s a hysterical number,’ Mitzevich says of the $265 million shortfall. ‘It’s a very methodical, clean number.’
