What’s on your art bucket list?

Assuming just for a moment that the Mayan prophesy about the end of the world is true, what great art works would you like to see before you die?
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Though the phrase ‘bucket list’ has really only entered common parlance in the last decade, largely thanks to director Rob Reiner’s 2007 dramedy, The Bucket List, the concept itself is well known enough to have inspired a popular series of books (1001 Films to See Before You Die and related titles) and endless dinner table conversations. Whether you’d like to climb Kilimanjaro, or less strenuously, drink a bottle of 1951 Penfolds Grange Hermitage before the end, we all have a bucket list of one kind or another – a list of things we’d like to do before we die.  

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts