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SIDNEY NOLAN A NEW RETROSPECTIVE
UNTIL 3 FEBRUARY 2008 The Gallery's major summer exhibition reveals the genius of Sidney Nolan - one of Australia's greatest painters and our first internationally acclaimed artist. A comprehensive audio guide narrated by John Doyle (aka Roy Slavin) is available and a video on the artist runs within the exhibition. Upcoming Art After Hours events include Celebrity Talks with guests Wendy Whiteley, David Marr and Moffatt Oxenbould, and live poetry and music performances in the exhibition space. School holiday performances bring to life the Australian legends and heros that inspired Nolan, including Ned Kelly. Tours Daily 12noon & 2pm, Wednesdays 7.15pm Video introduction to the exhibition
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Until 3 Feb
$12 adult / $9 conc
$33 family (2 adults+2 children)
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FREE SCHOOL HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES
Mon 7- Fri 11 Jan, and Mon 14 - Fri 18 Jan. 2008
7-11 Jan. 1.30pm Didgeridoo dance Indigenous songs, stories, dance and music celebrate Kitty Kantilla
14-18 Jan. 1.30pm Australian folklore Interactive storytelling and music brings to life legends such as Ned Kelly
Weekdays 7-18 Jan. 11am & 12.30pm Gert by Sea Meet Gert for a fun tour through Australian art full of larrikin spirit. FREE CHARACTER TOURS December Sundays 11.30am
16 Dec. Zhenmu Shou This fierce but friendly, guardian figure beckons you to discover some of the many treasures in the Asian Gallery
23 Dec. Aditi and her Rickshaw Theatrical storytelling with Bronwyn Vaughan.
30 Dec. The Queen of Sheba, in a dazzle of jewels, leads deliciously sassy tours through the Gallery's Old Courts FREE CHARACTER TOURS January Sundays 11.30am & 1.45pm
13, 20, 27 Jan. Gert by Sea Meet Gert for a fun tour through Australian art full of larrikin spirit. FREE PERFORMANCES Sundays 2.30pm
16 Dec. & 13 Jan. Open Stage Productions Interactive, imaginative, improvisational storytelling with
23 Dec. & 6 Jan. Commedia dell' Arte Meet a cast of carnival characters in a lively puppetry performance with Dennis Murphy.
30 Dec. & 20 Jan. Cartoon your head off Dave Hackett shows how to create some crazy cartoon characters. This performance interpreted into Auslan.
27 Jan. Aditi and her Rickshaw Theatrical storytelling with Bronwyn Vaughan. | Sundays in Dec
11.30am & 2.30pm School Holiday performances
Weekdays 7-18 Jan 2008
11am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm |
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Westerns: Outlaws and Outsiders in association with Sidney Nolan
Like Nolan’s paintings, Western films often depict the discordance of the land, people, history and mythology. This series of outstanding Westerns continues with these highlights in the upcoming weeks: A fistful of dollars (Dir: Sergio Leone 1964), A professional gun (Dir: Sergio Corbucci 1968) For a few dollars more (Dir: Sergio Leone 1965), and The Missouri breaks (Dir: Arthur Penn 1976). | No films on Boxing Day 26 Dec due to the public holiday. Wed 2pm & 7.15pm
Sun 2pm
Free |
| WEDNESDAYS UNTIL 9PM - FREE Please note: The Gallery will be open on Boxing Day 26 Dec until 9pm, but there are no programs scheduled due to the public holiday. Normal programming resumes on 2 Jan 2008. PAUL MCDERMOTT & PAUL LIVINGSTON ONLINE
A highlight of last week's Art After Hours, this entertaining Celebrity Talk explored the light-hearted elements of Nolan. Video and audio streams now available online for those who missed it. SPECIAL READINGS 6pm
9 & 16 Jan. Lee Young reads Fragments of Nolan, an adaption of the letters of Sidney Nolan | 
| CELEBRITY PERFORMANCES & TALKS 6.30pm
19 Dec. Kim Cunio and Heather Lee perform Music of Hildegard Von Bingen
2 Jan. Marty Murphy, writer and comedian, Is that a bucket on your head?
9 Jan. Patricia Lovell with cinematographer John Seale, Australian landscape in film.
16 Jan. David Marr, author and journalist, Walking in the Gallery with Sid Nolan and Patrick White
23 Jan. Wendy Whiteley talks about meeting Sidney Nolan
30 Jan. Moffatt Oxenbould, former Artistic Director of Opera Australia, Nolan in the Opera House PERFORMANCE IN THE EXHIBITION 5.30pm*
16 Jan. Kim Deacon, singer and Boris Goudonov, pianist, perform The Ern Malley Song Cycle
*Exhibition admission cost applies MUSIC IN THE ARTBAR 7.30pm
19 Dec, 2 Jan. Irish music with Alan Healy, Evelyn Finnery and Sean McLaughlin on fiddle, flute and mandolin | www.artafterhours.com.au or
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Extraordinary images of ordinary people: the photographs of August Sander from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles August Sander spent some forty years taking portraits of hundreds of German citizens. Remarkable for their unflinching realism and deft analysis of character and lifestyle, Sander's individual images stand out as high points of photographic portraiture. | 
Until 3 Feb 2008
Free
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Mountains and Streams This exhibition is a special opportunity to see the historical and spiritual importance that landscape painting has always represented for Chinese artists. Drawn from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of Chinese art and paintings. | 
Until 10 Feb 2008
Free
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Kitty Kantilla This major retrospective from the National Gallery of Victoria pays tribute to the renowned Tiwi artist Kitty Kantilla (Kutuwalumi Purawarrumpatu) and highlights her extraordinary artistic vision, from works on paper and canvas to bark paintings and sculptures. | 
Until 20 Jan 2008
Free
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Scott Redford Blood Disco For his first exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland artist Scott Redford drags art history into popular culture, using the materials that create surfboards he produces monochromatic paintings, some embellished with images. |
Until 13 April 2008
Free
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Indigenous Connections - Nolan's set and costume designs
Photographs by Axel Poignant In conjunction with the Sidney Nolan exhibition, this display includes photographs of the Royal Ballet's Rite of Spring rehearsals featuring Nolan's set and costume designs, along with images of Arnhem Land that inspired him and a spectacular re-creation of Nolan's Moonboy backcloth. | 
Until 3 Feb 2008
Free
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Living Black Opens 20 December Inspired by the title of the late Kevin Gilbert’s award winning book, Living Black, this exhibition from the Gallery’s permanent collection reveals contemporary experiences of living black in 21st century Australia. |
Opens 20 Dec
Free
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Yasumasa Morimura: Seasons of Passion / A Requiem: Mishima In his 2006 series Morimura recreates memorable postwar incidents as reported through press photography. In this DVD work, Morimura/Mishima delivers an impassioned speech, one based on the writer’s pre-suicide diatribe from 1970. |
Until 9 March 2008
Free
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude lecture Sat 15 Dec 11am - 12.30pm
Internationally renowned and critcially acclaimed avant-garde artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude present a special public discussion about key aspects of their impressive art projects. Free entry. Due to limited seating free tickets will be given out on the day from 10am | 
| Win a double pass to see the Sidney Nolan exhibition
We are giving away 5 double passes to see the Sidney Nolan exhibition. For your chance to win, email your contact details, along with the year Nolan was born, to competitions@ag.nsw.gov.au. Congratulations to our Artmail survey winners
Thank you to all who completed our Artmail survey. Congratulations to these winners: M. Armour, J. Attwood, C. Cavanna, L. Cox, B. Foster-Percy, M. Fukuda-Oddie, M. & B. Maclean and C. Wymer. Your prizes are in the post. | 
| Last chance - Christmas gifts online from the Gallery Shop
Place your order online by Monday 17 December for delivery before Christmas. Visit the Gallery Shop online for a comprehensive range of unique fine arts objects, kids books, DVDs and fun stocking fillers. Christmas Gift membership
Four categories of membership allow you to give a gift suitable for any art lover. Available from the Members' Lounge, online or contact 02 9255 1878. | 
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IMAGES FROM TOP: TOP Sidney Nolan Ned Kelly 1946 (detail), National Gallery of Canberra, gift of Sunday Reed 1977; Axel Poignant Sidney Nolan with portrait for Patrick White's 'The aunt's story', September 1964 © Courtesy Roslyn Poignant FOR KIDS Gert by Sea; Gerard Cafe; Queen of Sheba; FREE FILMS For a few dollars more courtesy Potential Films ART AFTER HOURS Pat Lovell, Kim Cunio, Kim Deacon; EXHIBITIONS August Sander (1876-1964) Bohemian (the painter Gottfried Brockman), 1922 gelatin silver photograph, 21.9x17cm, Courtesy the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—August Sander Archiv, Cologne. Licensed by Viscopy, Australia; Kim Ho TRAM, Playing flute in a pine forest, the joy of quietude, (detail) 2000, purchased through the NGV Foundation with the assistance of the Marjory and Alexander Lynch Endowment, Governors, 2001 © the artist; Kitty Kantilla, Jilamara, 1997, earth pigments on canvas, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Mobil Oil Australia Limited, Fellow, 1998. © The artist's estate, courtesy of Jilamara Arts & Craft; Scott RedfordSurf painting/the higher being command paint palm trees instead, 2007 (detail) © the artist; Sidney Nolan, Design for Moonboy backcloth for The Rite of Spring © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust; Mabel Juli Karngin Ngarranggarni (detail) 2006 Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Collection Benefactors Group 2006 © Mabel Juli, courtesy Warmun Art centre; Yasumasa MORIMURA Seasons of Passion / A Requiem: Mishima 2006. Still from DVD. Purchased with funds provided by the Photography Collection Benefactors’ Program 2007 © the artist NEWS Christo The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates, (detail) Collage 2007, Photo by Wolfgang Volz, © Christo; Sidney Nolan Kelly Head 1947. Collection Gene and Brian Sherman © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust; The Gallery Shop. |
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