What’s on your art bucket list?

Assuming just for a moment that the Mayan prophesy about the end of the world is true, what great art works would you like to see before you die?
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Though the phrase ‘bucket list’ has really only entered common parlance in the last decade, largely thanks to director Rob Reiner’s 2007 dramedy, The Bucket List, the concept itself is well known enough to have inspired a popular series of books (1001 Films to See Before You Die and related titles) and endless dinner table conversations. Whether you’d like to climb Kilimanjaro, or less strenuously, drink a bottle of 1951 Penfolds Grange Hermitage before the end, we all have a bucket list of one kind or another – a list of things we’d like to do before we die.  

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts