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