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Saturday 2 February 2013

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.

Dobell Prize for Drawing 2012

30 Nov 2012 – 10 Feb 2013

The most respected award for drawing in Australia, the annual Dobell Prize has always been the subject of discussion and debate about the nature of drawing.

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.

Francis Bacon
five decades

17 Nov 2012 – 24 Feb 2013

Surveying Bacon’s life and work, this is the first major exhibition in Australia of rare works by this towering figure of 20th-century art.

Papunya Tula
works on paper

13 Dec 2012 – 24 Mar 2013

Works from the early 1970s to a landmark 2009 print portfolio, including leading artists such as Timmy Payungka Tjapangati, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Doreen Reid Nakamarra and Naata Nungurrayi.

The London years 1960–67

Fri–Sun only 13 Jul 2012 – 7 Apr 2013
(See exhibition page for exact dates)

Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills

Special hours

Explores Brett Whiteley’s art and life from 1960 to 1967. Includes works from his Bathroom, Christie and London Zoo series, and monoprints of conversations with Francis Bacon.

We used to talk about love
Balnaves contemporary: photomedia

31 Jan – 21 Apr 2013

This exhibition of photomedia, video, collage, sculpture and installation considers the variegated terrain of love’s language – joy, elation, desire, eroticism, longing, loss, melancholia and memory.

  • 7.45am

    Day tour: Toulouse-Lautrec

    At the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

    Duration 14 hours, 15 minutes
    Charges apply

  • 9.30am

    For kids    Workshop

    Kids Club 2013

    Year of the snake

    2013 is the Chinese Year of the Snake. What qualities do you see in snakes? Let’s celebrate by creating a slippery, slithery, spectacular, colourful snake to give us good luck all year long.

    Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
    Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
    Charges apply

  • 10am

    Gallery opens

    Open every day, except Christmas & Good Friday

    Times vary. See Opening hours

  • 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

  • 11.30am

    For kids    Workshop

    Art Club 2013

    Ink and wash self-portraits

    Looking at the portraits of Joy Hester, we create a self-portrait, revealing emotion, in black ink and wash, using quick, spontaneous lines.

    Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
    Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
    Charges apply

  • For kids    Workshop

    Kids Club 2013

    Year of the snake

    2013 is the Chinese Year of the Snake. What qualities do you see in snakes? Let’s celebrate by creating a slippery, slithery, spectacular, colourful snake to give us good luck all year long.

    Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
    Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
    Charges apply

  • 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

    Dobell Prize for Drawing guided tour

    An introduction to the exhibition

    In association with Dobell Prize for Drawing 2012.
    Duration 1 hour
    Temporary exhibitions gallery
    Free

  • Art After Hours    Tour

    Guided tour: We used to talk about love

    Guided tour of the exhibition and contemporary collection highlights

    In association with We used to talk about love.
    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • Film

    Iconic interviews with Francis Bacon

    Daily documentary screenings on Bacon’s life and career

    In association with Francis Bacon.
    Duration 3 hours
    Centenary Auditorium
    Free

  • 1pm

    Tour

    Francis Bacon guided tour

    An introduction to the exhibition

    In association with Francis Bacon.
    Duration 1 hour
    Major exhibition gallery
    Free with exhibition entry

  • 1.15pm

    Tour

    Francis Bacon guided tour

    An introduction to the exhibition

    In association with Francis Bacon.
    Duration 1 hour
    Major exhibition gallery
    Free with exhibition entry

  • 2pm

    Tour

    Australian collection guided tour

    An introduction to selected highlights from the Australian collection

    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • For kids    Workshop

    Art Club 2013

    Ink and wash self-portraits

    Looking at the portraits of Joy Hester, we create a self-portrait, revealing emotion, in black ink and wash, using quick, spontaneous lines.

    Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
    Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
    Charges apply

  • For kids    Workshop

    Kids Club 2013

    Year of the snake

    2013 is the Chinese Year of the Snake. What qualities do you see in snakes? Let’s celebrate by creating a slippery, slithery, spectacular, colourful snake to give us good luck all year long.

    Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
    Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
    Charges apply

  • Film

    Film series: Hitting rock bottom in post-war England

    Nighthawks

    Dir: Ron Peck 1978
    113 mins 35mm Colour Rated R (unclassified)
    Starring Ken Robertson, Tony Westrope
    Released the year Thatcher came to power, Nighthawks could be seen as a political statement rather than a mainstream feature film. Jim is a geography teacher at a London comprehensive school. His sexuality is an open secret to everyone except his parents and his pupils. He spends evenings cruising gay bars and discos, looking in vain for ‘Mr Right’. His frenetic promiscuity yields no emotional satisfaction. Passionately contested on its initial release, Nighthawks was one of the first British movies to depict accurately the painful reality – and often banality – of a gay man’s life in London. It is a valuable document of late-1970s London, constructed from a series of plotless tableaux shot on a miniscule budget, with a cast of professional and non-professional actors.

    This screening will be introduced by Sydney-based writer and historian, Garry Wotherspoon. Wotherspoon’s academic work has been published in journals in the UK, France, Germany, the US, and Australia. He was a NSW History Fellow in 1997–98, and the recipient of the Centenary of Federation Medal for his work as an academic, researcher and human rights activist. His books include Being Different: nine gay men remember, Gay Perspectives: Essays in Australian Gay culture and City of the Plain: History of a Gay Subculture.

    In association with Francis Bacon.
    Duration 2 hours, 25 minutes
    Domain Theatre
    Free

  • 5pm

    Gallery closes

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

    See Opening hours

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