Washington: While Anthony Albanese was shaking hands with Donald Trump in the White House, a few blocks away, Michael Reid and Toby Meagher were welcoming some of the top names in the American art world to a pop-up gallery of Indigenous Australian art.

The Stars Before Us All opened in mid-October just off a busy, sometimes chaotic corner in central Washington. When this masthead visited, the World Bank was holding its annual meeting nearby, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s motorcade was causing traffic mayhem.

Nonetheless, curious locals have found their way inside. “The sentiment from everyone who’s stepped in is like: you get this preamble about how things in Washington are kind of crazy, and it’s really nice to have something like an oasis,” says Meagher, director of Mi

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