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Coming events related to these galleries are listed here. They’re updated frequently so check back later if none are currently scheduled. You can look for events by date, type or specific exhibition in What’s on.

Coming events

Painting from the collection

Reflecting the Renaissance painting workshop

Image: Domenico Beccafumi Madonna and Child with infant John the Baptist c1542 (detail)

Sunday 9 June, Monday 10 June, Sunday 16 June 2013
10:30am - 3:30pm


Location: Function space
Charges apply

Diploma lecture series 2013

Revolution to romanticism: European art and culture c1750–1850

Image: Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) Mars being disarmed by Venus and the three graces 1824 (detail), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels

Various Wednesdays 6pm
Various Thursdays 1pm
30 January – 14 November 2013
See listing for dates


Location: Domain Theatre
Charges apply

Cantonese language guided tour

免費粵語導覽

Tuesdays 11am
except January, last 2 weeks of December and public holidays

Duration 1 hour
Location: Information desk
Free

Japanese language guided tour

日本語による美術鑑賞ツアー

Fridays 11am
except January, last 2 weeks of December and public holidays

Duration 1 hour
Location: Information desk
Free

Korean language guided tour

무료 한국어 아트 투어

Fridays 11am
except January, last 2 weeks of December and public holidays

Duration 1 hour
Location: Information desk
Free

Mandarin language guided tour

免費國語導覽

Thursdays 11am
except January, last 2 weeks of December and public holidays

Duration 1 hour
Location: Information desk
Free

Past events

Class, sexuality and gazing

in François Sallé’s ‘The Anatomy class’, 1888

Image: François Sallé The anatomy class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts 1888 (detail)

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 5.30pm

Duration 30 minutes
Location: 19th c European art
Free

Collection talks: new acquisitions

Insights from Gallery staff into new works

Image: Janet Laurence The Memory of Nature 2010 (detail) Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales Contempo Group and the Contemporary Collection Benefactors with the generous assistance of Geoff Ainsworth AM, Peter Braithwaite, Sally Breen, Andrew & Cathy Cameron, Ginny & Leslie Green, Michael Hobbs, Ray Wilson OAM 2012. © Janet Laurence

Wednesdays 10 – 24 October 2012, 5.30pm


Location: Information desk
Free

Renaissance and rococo ceramics study day

Discover the arts of porcelain and maiolica

Image: Francesco Xanto Avelli Large plate: An allegory on the sack of Rome 1530 maiolica

Sunday 28 October 2012, 10.30am–3.30pm

Duration 5 hours
Location: Centenary Auditorium
Charges apply

Diploma lecture series 2012

Absolutism to enlightenment: European art and culture 1665-1765

Francois Boucher (1703-70) The toilet 1742 (detail), oil on canvas, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, JP Zenobel, The Bridgeman Art Library

Various Wednesdays 6pm
Various Thursdays 1pm
1 February - 1 November 2012
See listing for dates


Location: Domain Theatre
Charges apply

Thomas Gainsborough lecture

Hugh Belsey

Image: Thomas Gainsborough The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee c1770–74

Thursday 22 November 2012, 10.00am

Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
Location: Domain Theatre
Charges apply