Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2017
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O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: making modernism
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Join curator Denise Mimmocchi in O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: making modernism. Watch floral stylists create dazzling displays from flowers, skulls and other curiosities. Take in Jane Campion’s masterpiece The piano or kick back to some jazz with Virna Sanzone.
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Celebrating 100 years since the birth of one of Australia’s best-known artists, with a display of Sidney Nolan works and a series of events.
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Discover more about the lives, times and work of Georgia O’Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith.
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Find out more about the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes – including entry information – and explore the finalists and winners year by year.
Inside ARTEXPRESS
Explore artists and works back to 2005 in the annual exhibition of outstanding student artworks, developed for the HSC examination in Visual Arts in NSW.
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Grace Cossington Smith and the Macquarie Galleries mystery
With the exhibition 'O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: making modernism' currently showing at the Gallery, now is a perfect time to revisit one of the most mysterious crimes in Australian art – the theft of 28 Grace Cossington Smith paintings from Macquarie Galleries on 4 April 1977.
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The Studio at 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills was the workplace and home of Australian artist Brett Whiteley. Join us there on the third Sunday of the month when musicians perform works from the classical and contemporary repertoire in this intimate setting.
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