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Tim Olsen and Evan Hughes Driven by Human Intelligence

Since when did any commercial art gallery offer “surgery hours?”

Since Hughes at Olsen opened in Sydney on May 1, that’s when.

Every Friday between 10 a.m. and noon, Evan Hughes will be ready and willing to speak to artists and art students who can simply drop by unannounced and shoot the breeze about whatever.

It’s an idea Hughes drew from Cambridge University where he studied art history. “The deans of studies always had surgery hours where anyone could pop in with any question they wanted at a specific time,” Hughes says. The idea

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