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Sunday 10 March 2013

EXHIBITIONS

ARTEXPRESS 2013

20 Feb – 14 Apr 2013

A dynamic and popular exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts, 2012.

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.

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.

Soul of simplicity
seven centuries of Korean ceramics

until 21 Apr 2014

Discover the clarity of forms, understated elegance of decoration and subtlety of colour in these exquisite objects from the world’s most outstanding collections of Korean ceramics.

The fashion of Helmut Newton and Bettina Rheims

9 Feb – 19 May 2013

Over 50 works by two iconic fashion photographers, from the Gallery’s photography collection.

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.

  • 10am

    Gallery opens

    Open every day, except Christmas & Good Friday

    Times vary. See Opening hours

  • 10.30am

    Course    Workshop

    Tom Bass sculpture workshop CANCELLED

    CANCELLED

    Duration 5 hours
    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

  • 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

  • 12.30pm

    Music

    Sunday concert series 2013

    Rising Stars from AIM's Piano Department

    Duration 1 hour
    Grand Courts
    Free

  • 1pm

    Tour

    Guided tour: ARTEXPRESS 2013

    A guided tour of the exhibition

    In association with ARTEXPRESS 2013.
    Duration 1 hour
    Temporary exhibitions gallery
    Free

  • 2pm

    Tour

    Australian collection guided tour

    An introduction to selected highlights from the Australian collection

    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • Art After Hours    Film

    Film series: Ain't there anyone here for love?

    Gentlemen prefer blondes

    Dir: Howard Hawkes 1953 (US)
    91 mins 35mm Colour Rated PG
    Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell
    Hawkes’ Hollywood musical/comedy film is an adaptation of Anita Loos’ 1925 satirical novel and stage hit. Alive with the effervescent Technicolor of the post-war boom, it is a 'buddy film’ featuring characters from the 'wrong side of the tracks’ on the hunt for love. Monroe and Russell play gold-digging cabaret artistes on a transaltlantic voyage, who come into contact with their social superiors. Sexual and class stereotyping generates a series of hilarious embarrassments, which ensure the film’s hilarity. In her book on women’s humour and American culture, Nancy A Walker defines a humorist as someone who is at 'odds with the publicly espoused values of the culture, overturning its sacred cows’. The satire in Loos’ book could not be exactly matched in the film adaptation, but lends a subversive edge. The underlying theme is the solidarity of the central characters, Lorelei and Dorothy, in their disregard for social norms at a time when conformity and conservatism were ubiquitous. Archival print courtesy 20th Century Fox.

    In association with We used to talk about love.
    Duration 1 hour, 31 minutes
    Domain Theatre
    Free

  • 2.30pm

    Auslan    For kids    Performance

    Gallery Kids Sunday performance 2013

    InterACTive art

    Interactive, imaginative, explorative, improvisational storytelling with Open Stage Productions. Performed by Daniel Cordeaux and Monique Dykstra.

    30 June performance is Auslan interpreted

    Duration 30 minutes
    Entrance court
    Free

  • 5pm

    Gallery closes

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

    See Opening hours

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