Kandinsky
So reads a wall text at the entrance to the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Kandinsky, serving as a reminder that the artist’s aspiration towards the spiritual in painting was not solely a matter of self-realisation, but reflected a monumental ambition to shape the future of art. Eighty years after Kandinsky’s death, the world […]
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Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line
A Curve is a Broken Line is shaped by testimonials of Iranian-born artist Hoda Afshar, and installed and curated by Isobel Parker Philip at the Art Gallery of NSW. In this hybrid multifaceted exhibition, the Melbourne-based visual storyteller shares with an audience ten years of her reciprocal art projects and collaborative artistic activities. The book […]
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Andrew Andersons: Architecture and the Public Realm
When the Australian colonies began to build their first museums – inaugurated by what is now known as The Lady Franklin Museum at the foot of Mount Wellington in Hobart in 1842 – they naturally reflected the taste of their time, namely neoclassical. The porticos, columns, and pediments, often with relief sculptures, elicited the spirit […]
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Matisse: Life & Spirit and Matisse Alive
Without his touch, Matisse would not exist for us. We can recognise his work by its radical composition, the lyricism of its colour and the utter clarity of the artist’s final phase, but before these qualities could blossom there was an initial impulse, born of the liberated touch of the late nineteenth century. The freedom to […]
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Matisse: Life & Spirit
Was there a more prolific maker of unforgettable images than Matisse, at least in the twentieth century? The number of exceptional works he created, in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and his own medium of the paper cut-out, is astounding. He coaxed a wealth of aesthetic qualities from his materials and evolved a huge inventory of […]
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The National 2021: New Australian Art
‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ is a celebration of contemporary Australian art that connects Sydney’s key inner city cultural precincts and brings together thirty-nine artists, collectives and collaborative ventures. It offers a resonant and aware collection of ideas, and significantly, now has the stellar commitment from its three supporting institutions to continue beyond this, […]
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The National: New Australian Art
Three of Sydney’s major public art institutions showcase a multivalent multitude of new Australian art.
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The 21st Biennale of Sydney
The 21st Biennale of Sydney unites the work of seventy artists and art collectives from six continents.
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Entries open for the Studios in Paris Scholarship 2015
Once again the Art Gallery of New South Wales is calling for entrants for the Studios in Paris Scholarship.
The Photograph and Australia
The Art Gallery of NSW brings together hundreds of photographs to reflect an evolving image of Australia from the 1840s onwards.
Pop to Popism
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has brought Pop in all its dynamic shocks and variations starting this November.
Sydney Ball adds a splash of colour to the Art Gallery of NSW
The Art Gallery of New South Wales announces their acquisition of the major work by Sydney Ball, Great Falls 1975-76.
An alluring look into Japan’s ancient theatrical reveries
Delve into the theatrical history of Japanese nō and kyōgen theatre.
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Bvlgari Art Award
Michael Zavros has been announced as the first recipient of the Bvlgari Art Award, a joint initiative of the Art Gallery of NSW and Bulgari. The winner, chosen by the Art Gallery of NSW Trustees and the head curator of Australian art, receives a $50 000 painting acquisition and a $30 000 residency in […]
