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.
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.