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Thursday 23 February 2012

EXHIBITIONS

ARTEXPRESS 2012

until 22 Apr 2012

A dynamic and popular exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts, 2011.

Dragon

until 6 May 2012

Celebrating 2012 as the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, this exhibition showcases artworks that carry the dragon motif.

Eugenia Raskopoulos
footnotes

until 13 May 2012

EXHIBITION OPENS

In this video installation, Raskopoulos performs a series of actions that accumulate letters into words, in English and Greek, using her own limbs as the writing instrument or surface.

Making sense
contemporary LA photo artists

until 13 May 2012

Photographs by artists based in Southern California, whose work deals with relations between landscape and architecture, high and low culture, representations of the body, politics and irony, word and image.

Mother India
video plays by Nalini Malani

until 20 May 2012

The focus of this display is a 15-metre long video projection, featuring an emotive and politically charged sequence of images addressing gender violence in India.

New contemporary galleries
featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection

until 2 May 2012

The Art Gallery of NSW now holds Australia’s most comprehensive representation of contemporary art. This is the first display in our new contemporary galleries, featuring the John Kaldor Family Gallery.

Picasso
masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris

until 25 Mar 2012

This exhibition will be the most significant Picasso exhibition to come to Australia. Part of a world tour, the Art Gallery of NSW is the only Australian venue.

  • 10am

    Gallery opens

    Open every day, except Christmas & Good Friday

    Times vary. See Opening hours

  • Course    Lecture / symposium

    Coffee lecture: Charles Dickens turns 200

    Bleak House

    Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
    Domain Theatre
    Charges apply

  • 11am

    Tour

    Aboriginal art guided tour

    A guided introduction to the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander collection

    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • Tour

    Collection highlights tour

    An introduction to selected highlights from the Gallery's collection

    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • Tour

    Mandarin language guided tour

    A guided introduction to the collection, in Mandarin

    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • 12pm

    Tour

    Asian art guided tour

    A guided introduction to art from China, Korea, Japan, the Himalayas, India and Southeast Asia

    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • Tour

    Contemporary art guided tour

    A guided introduction to highlights from the contemporary collection

    In association with New contemporary galleries.
    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • 1pm

    Course    Lecture / symposium

    Diploma lecture series 2012

    Performing power and prestige: the great fêtes in the gardens of Vaux and Versailles

    Rachelle Johnston

    Duration 1 hour
    Domain Theatre
    Charges apply

  • 2pm

    Tour

    Collection highlights tour

    An introduction to selected highlights from the Gallery's collection

    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • Tour

    Guided tour of the collection: Picasso's path

    Artists and artworks linked to Picasso in the Gallery’s collection

    In association with Picasso.
    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • 5pm

    Gallery closes

    Saturdays 14 Jan – 24 Mar 2012 Picasso and cafe open till 7pm

    See Opening hours

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