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Picasso
masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris

until 25 Mar 2012

This exhibition will be the most significant Picasso exhibition to come to Australia. Part of a world tour, the Art Gallery of NSW is the only Australian venue.

ARTEXPRESS 2012

until 22 Apr 2012

A dynamic and popular exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts, 2011.

New contemporary galleries
featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection

until 2 May 2012

The Art Gallery of NSW now holds Australia’s most comprehensive representation of contemporary art. This is the first display in our new contemporary galleries, featuring the John Kaldor Family Gallery.

Dragon

until 6 May 2012

Celebrating 2012 as the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, this exhibition showcases artworks that carry the dragon motif.

Eugenia Raskopoulos
footnotes

until 13 May 2012

In this video installation, Raskopoulos performs a series of actions that accumulate letters into words, in English and Greek, using her own limbs as the writing instrument or surface.

Making sense
contemporary LA photo artists

until 13 May 2012

Photographs by artists based in Southern California, whose work deals with relations between landscape and architecture, high and low culture, representations of the body, politics and irony, word and image.

Mother India
video plays by Nalini Malani

until 20 May 2012

The focus of this display is a 15-metre long video projection, featuring an emotive and politically charged sequence of images addressing gender violence in India.

Blue

Sat, Sun only until 7 Jul 2012

Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills

Special hours

Brett Whiteley not only embraced traditional modes of beauty but also notoriously challenged them. Blue explores Whiteley’s fascination with nature in its extreme contradictions of light and dark, calm and disruption.