Julian Robertson’s Art Bequest Angers Mayor in New Zealand 

Auckland’s new mayor has lashed out at the gallery that will be the New Zealand home of the late billionaire Julian Robertson’s $190 million art collection, and questioned whether accepting such gifts is worth it.

Mayor Wayne Brown said Auckland Art Gallery is the most “uneconomic building” in the city due to its poor visitor numbers, and raised concerns over the cost of housing of art work given by benefactors.