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This exhibition, which includes Dutch scenes, patriotic British WWI homefront images and examples of Mortimer’s refined techniques, displays for the first time the major gift to the Gallery’s collection from the artist’s daughter.
26 July - 26 October 2008 |
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| | Kate Beynon
Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon presents a new series of paintings in which she explores ideas of transcultural identity and the ‘global citizen’.
7 August - 26 October 2008 |
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| | Dobell Prize for Drawing 2008
The Dobell Prize is Australia’s most prestigious drawing prize and since its establishment in 1993 has attracted the very best in contemporary drawing.
5 September - 9 November 2008 |
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| | War: The Prints of Otto Dix
This exhibition showcases Otto Dix’s war portfolio Der krieg 1924, a collection of 51 etchings with aquatint which is regarded as one of the great masterpieces of 20th-century printmaking.
22 August - 26 October 2008 |
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| | The Lost Buddhas
The discovery of these 6th-century stone Buddhist sculptures at the site of a long-destroyed temple in China is considered an archaeological find on par with the First Emperor's terracotta soldiers.
29 August - 23 November 2008 |
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| | Tom Arthur
First exhibited at the Gallery in 1975, this extraordinary installation was the first of a major trilogy of works produced by the Sydney-based sculptor in the 1970s which explored states of flux and emergence and the way knowledge is perceived.
6 September - 23 November 2008 |
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| | Operation Art 2008
An annual exhibition of children's art from schools throughout NSW created for the Children's Hospital, Westmead.
23 September - 6 October 2008 |
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| | Monet and the Impressionists
The Art Gallery of NSW is the only Australian venue for this extraordinary exhibition of impressionist paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, including 30 works by Claude Monet alongside masterpieces by Cézanne, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley and others.
11 October - 26 January 2009 |
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| | Justene Williams
Sydney-based artist Justene Williams presents a new five-channel video installation exploring her ongoing interest in the history of images, gesture and dance.
6 November 2008 - 1 February 2009 |
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| | Half Light
This is the first major survey of the work of Australian Indigenous artists engaging with the photographic medium and the portrait.
22 November 2008 - 22 February 2009 |
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| | Horace Trenerry
Horace Trenerry was a remarkably adventurous South Australian painter. It is his late work that provides the most significant evidence of his genius; chalky, boldly designed images that place him on a par with the finest modern Australian landscape painters of his time.
29 November 2008 - 15 March 2009 |
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| | Genji - The world of the Shining Prince
2008 marks the 1000th anniversary of Japan’s oldest novel, The Tale of Genji. Featuring about 70 works, this exhibition shows the imaginative power of Japanese artists to adapt and translate this timeless and popular tale.
12 December 2008 - 22 February 2009 |
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