Oh là là: Aboriginal art to be seen from Eiffel Tower

A work by Indigenous Australian artist Lena Nyadbi has been chosen to grace the top of the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris’s museum of non-Western art.
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The work, which will be officially unveiled in Canberra next week, will be the showpiece on the top of the MQB building, nestled among Parisian landmarks and visible from the Eiffel Tower.

Entitled Dayiwul Lirlmin(The Dream of the Scales of the Barramundi) is a 25 cm square work that will be scaled up to be a 700 square metres on the museum’s rooftop.

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Deborah Stone
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Deborah Stone is a Melbourne journalist and communications professional. She is a former Editor of ArtsHub and a former Fairfax feature writer.