July 2017 Untitled (all) Calvin and Ruby Black 1955–1972 David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart, Tasmania is renowned for presenting ground-breaking exhibitions that push boundaries, challenge conventions, and confound expectations. And its latest exhibition is no different. From June 10, 2017 until April 2, 2018, MONA is hosting the now legendary project The Museum of Everything (http://www.musevery.com/) – the world’s first travelling museum dedicated to the work of non-academic artists and private art makers. For its most expansive and ambitious show to date, The Museum of Everything has hijacked MONA’s temporary exhibition space with a showcase of almost 2000 works by almost 200 artists spanning the genres of drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, environments, and assemblies – and it’s a sight to behold. The Museum of Everything was founded in 2009 by British filmmaker James Brett with a mission to promote and showcase the work of artists working outside the boundaries of the cultural mainstream – in their words, “the untrained, unintentional, undiscovered, and unclassifiable artists” of the world who would otherwise be ignored or sidelined by the arbiters of artistic achievement. Since its beginning as a temporary exhibition in a former recording studio in London, The Museum of Everything has held major exhibitions in London, Moscow, Paris, Turin, Venice, and Rotterdam, attracting over a million visitors and counting. “The Museum of Everything was a way to step aside from the terminology of ‘outsider art’, which I felt was wrong-footed. It had become a bigoted and restrictive term, and it allowed mainstream curators to just deny that material a place in the art world,” Brett explains. The Museum of Everything at MONA is a Private Art Eye-Opener BY NICHOLAS FORREST | JULY 02, 2017