MONA founder David Walsh says the museum is 'my hotted-up Torana'
As someone famously obsessed with sex and death, it makes senses the iconoclastic art patron sees his famous Hobart museum as a tool to help him 'bang above his weight'.
David Walsh chose to have lunch with the AFR at Hobart pizza and pasta joint Da Angelo's rather his own restaurant Faro – "it's too loud". Rémi Chauvin
David Walsh didn't have a clue what the restaurant scene was like in Hobart when he was growing up in the working-class suburb of Glenorchy in the 1960s and '70s.
“I didn’t go to a restaurant except for my 13th birthday,” he says. “I otherwise didn’t go to a restaurant until I was older than 18.”
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