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Celebrate the visual arts on a year-round basis by joining our Art Lovers program.
It's a mass art-fest of mega-mart proportions that regularly attracts Australia's top-tier galleries and a sizable line-up of overseas ones and, last time around, more than 26,000 visitors to the Royal Exhibition Building.
Megan Backhouse, Art Gallery Guide, July 2008
The convenience alone would justify the event, as you get to see and compare galleries of a great range that would take you many kilometres and days to cover, especially, of course, the international galleries.
Robert Nelson, Melbourne Art Fair, The Age, Entertainment, Page 3, Wednesday 30 July 2008
Image top: Gloss Enamel perform at Melbourne Art Fair 2006. Image fourth: Damiano Bertoli's Structural Decline. Image fifth: Michael Parekowhai's Cosmo. Image sixth: Artwork by Judy Millar. All photography David Marks.
The Melbourne Art Foundation Fund is a tax-deductible fund listed on the Register Of Cultural Organisations.
The Melbourne Art Fair is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.