Given vague instructions to gather at 6:15pm at the Arts Centre, the crew and their partners were ushered to the National Gallery of Victoria where they were greeted with glasses of bubbly and a string quartet.
After a few goblets of the right stuff it was into the gallery for a private after-hours tour of the NGVxMoMA exhibition - a showcase of 130 years of modern and contemporary art on loan from New York. There were two curators moving through the Luma peeps to give a bit of background on any pieces that might need a little explanation - Magritte’s The Portrait, for instance, was a painting on which many agreed you’d need a brain like a bagful of kaleidoscopes to understand, let alone come up with.