Francis McWhannell Writer and curator

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Filling in the gaps

Public Dream: Liquidation by Cushla Donaldson

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An inventory of Caravaggio’s household contents was drawn up when his tenancy ended abruptly in August 1605 … Reading it is like leafing through a dossier of arbitrarily cropped and framed snapshots of the things a man once owned – the furniture he sat on, the weapons with which he fought, the books he read, the tools he used. But all the photographs are just a little out of focus. Crucial...

Francis McWhannell Writer and curator

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Francis McWhannell (b. 1985, Aotearoa New Zealand) is a writer and curator based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He is curator of the Fletcher Trust Collection, a major private collection of Aotearoa art founded in 1962.