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  • Performance art of times past

    This year's Anne Landa Award exhibition contains a lot of 'live' works and that's got us thinking about performance art at the Art Gallery of NSW in times past.

    3 weeks ago, by Anneke Jaspers

  • The cracks of Jealousy

    It's one of Tom Roberts' most important studio paintings of the 1880s but it's rarely been seen due to its poor condition. A new conservation project is underway to change that.

    1 month ago, by Andrea Nottage

  • Programmed for love

    You'd think a universal subject such as love would be a dream theme when it came to planning a series of public programs and events at the Gallery. As it turns out, love ain’t easy.

    4 months, 1 week ago, by Alexandra Gregg

  • Bacon and beer: Australians in London

    There once was a time when being an Australian in London meant more than fetching the beers. It meant engaging in a world of ideas.

    4 months, 4 weeks ago, by Andrew Yip

  • Preserving the posters of Toulouse-Lautrec

    Conservators have the ability to reduce the signs of aging - even when an object is over 100 years old.

    6 months ago, by Analiese Treacy

  • Tick, tick, tick... Bacon and time

    What have snail slime, police mug shots and a 17th-century painting of a cardinal's head got to do with a Bacon triptych?

    6 months, 3 weeks ago, by Josephine Touma

  • Class, crims, sex and Soho

    Trampling taboos in post-war London

    7 months, 3 weeks ago, by Robert Herbert

  • Picasso and Bacon: two giants of art

    Francis Bacon once said, ‘It was after staying in Paris, where I saw an exhibition of Picasso, that I said to myself that I was going to paint.’

    8 months ago, by Macushla Robinson

  • Conserving a Gallery favourite

    It’s one of the Gallery’s most-loved works of art and now it’s back on display in its magnificent gold-leaf gilded frame after a major conservation project that was also an Australian first.

    9 months ago, by Carolyn Murphy

  • When Brett met Francis

    Australian art was ‘hot’ in London when 20-year-old Brett Whiteley arrived in early 1960, courtesy of the Italian Government Travelling Art Scholarship.

    11 months, 1 week ago, by Emma Collerton