Wednesday 10 October 2012
EXHIBITIONS
Dadang Christanto
They give evidence
until 21 Jul 2013
A reprise of the confronting and moving, larger-than-life sculptures of human suffering by Dadang Christanto.
Eugène Atget
Old Paris
24 Aug – 4 Nov 2012
Lose yourself in the beauty of Old Paris with over 200 rare and original prints from the founder of documentary photography.
Flatlands
photography and everyday space
13 Sep 2012 – 3 Feb 2013
Examines photography’s role in transforming the way we perceive, organise and imagine the everyday world, by looking at the changing ways artists have depicted public and private environments.
Home
27 Jun – 2 Dec 2012
Explores the idea of home through the works of Aboriginal artists who belong to nations and language groups that today fall within the area defined as New South Wales.
Operation art 2012
4 Oct – 21 Oct 2012
An annual exhibition of children’s art from schools throughout NSW created for the Children’s Hospital, Westmead.
Shaun Gladwell
Broken Dance (Beatboxed)
23 Aug – 21 Oct 2012
This mesmerising new work includes one video showing dancers performing a mixture of urban styles, while another features the vocal percussions of a beatboxer.
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10am
Gallery opens
Open every day, except Christmas & Good FridayTimes vary. See Opening hours
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11am
Tour
Aboriginal art guided tour
A guided introduction to the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander collectionDuration 1 hour
Information desk
Free -
Tour
Collection highlights tour
An introduction to selected highlights from the Gallery's collectionDuration 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 AsiaDuration 1 hour
Information desk
Free -
Tour
Contemporary art guided tour
Contemporary art highlights in the Gallery, including Anne Landa AwardIn association with The space between us.
Duration 1 hour
Information desk
Free -
2pm
Tour
Australian collection guided tour
An introduction to selected highlights from the Australian collectionDuration 1 hour
Information desk
Free -
Film
Location: Paris film series
Cleo from 5 to 7Dir: Agnès Varda 1962
90 mins 35mm B&W Rated M
French with English subtitles
Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller
Agnès Varda’s masterpiece follows two hours in the life of Cleo, a successful pop singer, as she awaits the outcome of a critical medical test for cancer. Anxiously wandering the streets of Paris – its cafes, crowds, cinemas, street theatres – she gains a new sense of perspective on her sheltered, artificial life and gradually ceases playing the role her admirers expect of her. Varda once described her film as 'the portrait of a woman painted onto a documentary about Paris’. Fusing the immediacy of the cinema verité documentary – which was emerging at this time – with fictional drama, the director follows Cleo’s every step and accounts for every moment. With the retirement of some of the most prolific commercial directors of the first post-war decade, the late 1950s was a period of intense activity and renewal for French cinema. Considered the 'grandmother’ of the French New Wave movement, Varda anticipated this breakthrough with her early films and completed her second feature in 1962. Print courtesy Institut Français and French Embassy.In association with Eugène Atget.
Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
Domain Theatre
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5.15pm
Art After Hours Music
Artbar: Declan Kelly
in association with the Australian galleriesDuration 1 hour
Cafe
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5.30pm
Art After Hours Exhibition talk
Collection talk: new acquisitions
Janet Laurence ‘The memory of nature’ 2010Andrew Yip and Alexandra Gregg, coordinators of public programs
Janet Laurence’s sculptural installations address the fragility of natural environments and questions of sustainability. Her works emphasise states of transformation as well as cycles of life and death, typically mingling organic matter and scientific instruments with references to museum modes of display.
View work in the collectionDuration 30 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
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6pm
Course Lecture / symposium
Diploma lecture series 2012
The Enlightenment and the kingdom of animalsCraig Judd
Change of date: Please note this lecture was originally scheduled on 19 & 20 September 2012
Duration 1 hour
Domain Theatre
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6.30pm
Art After Hours Celebrity talk Music
Australian collection celebrity event
Dr Anita Heiss, author, cultural activist and social commentatorAnita Heiss is the author of numerous books, spanning non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel. She is an Indigenous Literacy Day Ambassador and a proud member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales. Tonight she talks about her latest publication, her memoir, Am I Black Enough For You? and the theme of identity in Australia.
Duration 30 minutes
Entrance court
Free -
Duration 2 hours
Information desk
Charges apply -
7.15pm
Tour
Contemporary art guided tour
Contemporary art highlights in the Gallery, including Anne Landa AwardIn association with The space between us.
Duration 1 hour
Information desk
Free -
Tour
Eugène Atget guided tour
An introduction to the exhibitionIn association with Eugène Atget.
Duration 1 hour
Temporary exhibitions gallery
Free with exhibition entry -
Film
Location: Paris film series
Cleo from 5 to 7Dir: Agnès Varda 1962
90 mins 35mm B&W Rated M
French with English subtitles
Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller
Agnès Varda’s masterpiece follows two hours in the life of Cleo, a successful pop singer, as she awaits the outcome of a critical medical test for cancer. Anxiously wandering the streets of Paris – its cafes, crowds, cinemas, street theatres – she gains a new sense of perspective on her sheltered, artificial life and gradually ceases playing the role her admirers expect of her. Varda once described her film as 'the portrait of a woman painted onto a documentary about Paris’. Fusing the immediacy of the cinema verité documentary – which was emerging at this time – with fictional drama, the director follows Cleo’s every step and accounts for every moment. With the retirement of some of the most prolific commercial directors of the first post-war decade, the late 1950s was a period of intense activity and renewal for French cinema. Considered the 'grandmother’ of the French New Wave movement, Varda anticipated this breakthrough with her early films and completed her second feature in 1962. Print courtesy Institut Français and French Embassy.In association with Eugène Atget.
Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
Domain Theatre
Free -
7.30pm
Art After Hours Music
Artbar: Declan Kelly
in association with the Australian galleriesDuration 1 hour
Cafe
Free -
9pm
Gallery closes (Art After Hours)
Wednesday 9pm(Thursday to Tuesday 5pm)
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