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Sunday 12 February 2012

EXHIBITIONS

20th-century Australian collection

17 Sep 2011 – 12 Feb 2012

LAST DAY

Key themes and artists in Australian art from the early 20th century through to the 1970s, including Grace Cossington Smith, Margaret Preston, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale and Arthur Boyd.

Blue

Sat, Sun only until 8 Jul 2012

Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills

Special hours

Brett Whiteley not only embraced traditional modes of beauty but also notoriously challenged them. Blue explores Whiteley’s fascination with nature in its extreme contradictions of light and dark, calm and disruption.

Dragon

18 Jan – 6 May 2012

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

Making sense
contemporary LA photo artists

11 Feb – 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

11 Feb – 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

21 May 2011 – 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

12 Nov 2011 – 25 Mar 2012

This exhibition is 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

  • 10.30am

    Workshop

    Four seasons: botanical illustration workshops

    Sold out

    Duration 5 hours
    Function space
    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

  • 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

  • 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: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso.
    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • Film

    Picasso goes to the movies

    Hiroshima, mon amour

    Dir: Alain Resnais 1959 (France)
    91 mins 35mm B&W Rated PG
    Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
    French with English subtitles

    In Alain Resnais’ influential first feature, two people meet in Hiroshima and become lovers: a French woman who was punished for her wartime romance and a Japanese man whose life was shattered by the nuclear blast. A complex series of flashbacks, fantasies and nightmares reveal the past, present and future and establishes the relationship between historical calamities and personal histories. Hailed as a masterpiece of the French new wave, Hiroshima, mon amour ranks as one of the seminal films of the late 1950s and early 1960s ‘modernist’ renaissance. Scripted by French novelist Marguerite Duras.

    In association with Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso.
    Duration 1 hour, 31 minutes
    Domain Theatre
    Free

  • 2.30pm

    For kids    Performance

    Gallery Kids Sunday performance 2012

    Look at me: what do you see?

    Join the Gallery character Pertinos from the planet Boomdiddy Vostock as she takes you on a journey through modern and contemporary art.

    Written by Geoffrey McSkimming. Directed by Robina Beard OAM. Performed by Tara O’Sullivan. Designed by Virginia Naylor.

    Duration 30 minutes
    Entrance court
    Free

  • 5pm

    Gallery closes

    Normal hours: 10am–5pm, Wednesdays till 9pm

    See Opening hours

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