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The Art Gallery of New South Wales is open every Wednesday night until 9pm for Art After Hours, except: 1, 22 & 29 December 2010.

Admission is free, although charges may apply to some special exhibitions.

As well as all exhibitions and the permanent collection display, events include performances, talks, films and music. The Gallery shop and members lounge are also open, and the library is open until 7.30pm.

Conserving the posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Analiese Treacy, paper conservator

Image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec La Chaine Simpson 1896 colour lithograph (detail)

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 5.30pm

Duration 30 minutes
Location: Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
Free

ARTEXPRESS 2012 artists talks

Image: Jordan Munns, Model Farms High School Long after I am gone (detail)

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 5.30pm

Duration 30 minutes
Location: Temporary exhibitions gallery
Free

ARTEXPRESS 2012 celebrity event

Gretel Killeen in conversation with selected ARTEXPRESS artists

Image: Gretel Killeen

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 6.30pm

Duration 30 minutes
Location: Entrance court
Free

Eugenia Raskopoulos in conversation with Anne Marsh

on ‘footnotes’

Image: Eugenia Raskopoulos footnotes 2011 (still) 3-channel digital video, sound, installation 4m:18s Courtesy the artist and William Wright // Artists Projects

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 6.00pm

Duration 30 minutes
Location: Contemporary project space
Free

Antony Penrose in conversation

Memories of Picasso

Image: Picasso and Antony Penrose, Farley Farm House, England 1950 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2012. All rights reserved

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 4.30pm

Duration 30 minutes
Location: Entrance court
Free

Short talks: perspectives on Picasso

In the Gallery’s modern European gallery

Image: Deborah Kelly. Photo by Daniel Shipp.

Wednesdays 5.30pm
16–30 November 2011
4 January – 29 February 2012


Location: Modern gallery
Free

Wednesday lecture: Picasso

Picasso and Dora Maar:  love and war 1935–45

Image: Pablo Picasso by Gjon Mili/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 7.15pm

Duration 1 hour
Location: Centenary Auditorium
Free

Picasso celebrity events

For Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris

Image: John Bell

Wednesdays 6.30pm
16 November 2011 – 7 March 2012
(except 21 & 28 December, 22 February)


Location: Entrance court
Free

Making sense exhibition talks

Expert insights into the exhibition

Image: Miles Coolidge Stool 2006. Gift of Geoff and Vicki Ainsworth 2009 © Miles Coolidge, image courtesy ACME, Los Angeles

Wednesdays 7–21 March 2012, 5.30pm


Location: Photography gallery
Free

Music in the ArtBar

Enjoy music inspired by Picasso’s native Spain and his adopted home of Paris.

Image: David Holberton

Wednesdays 5.15 & 7.30pm
16 November 2011 – 21 March 2012
(except 21 & 28 December)


Location: Cafe
Free