Symposium: Towards a flexible future
Managing time-based media artworks in collections
Image: Anthony McCall Meeting you halfway II 2009 (detail), single channel digital video projection, black and white, silent, haze, duration: 00:15:00 min, aspect ratio: 4:3, display dimensions variable, Art Gallery of New South Wales, purchased 2014
© Anthony McCall, installation view, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2009
Photo: Jason Wyche
Tuesday 4 June 2019, 8.30am
Duration 4 hours, 45 minutes
Location: Centenary Auditorium
Charges apply
Tuesday 4 June 2019, 2.30pm
Duration 1 hour
Location: Domain Theatre
Charges apply
Wednesday 5 June 2019, 6pm
Duration 2 hours
Location: 20th & 21st c Australian art
Charges apply
Artists behaving badly
In conversation with Ashleigh Wilson and John Saxby
Image: Caravaggio Boy bitten by a lizard 1594–1596 (detail) Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Florence
Saturday 15 June 2019, 2pm
Duration 1 hour
Location: Centenary Auditorium
Charges apply
Armchair travel: Ethiopia – the heart of African Civilisation
With Jane Hutcheon
Image: Frescoes in the Debre Birhan Selassie church in Gondar, Ethiopia
Saturday 22 June 2019, 10.30am
Duration 1 hour
Location: Centenary Auditorium
Charges apply
Performance lecture and film screening: From site to place
In association with UNSW Galleries
Image: Robert Andrew, Touching Pindan (detail), 2016, rocks, aluminium, electromechanicals, photo courtesy Louis Lim and © the artist
Sunday 23 June 2019, 2pm
Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
Location: Domain Theatre
Free
1001 Nights: Magnificent Tales from the Near East
With Julian Droogan
Image: Persian School (16th century) Ms D-212 fol.285a Alexander Visits a Hermit, illustration to The Book of Alexander by Elias Nezami, 1191 c1550 (detail) Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg, Russia/Bridgeman Images
Various Fridays and Saturdays 10.30am
21 June to 3 August 2019
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Duration 2 hours
Location: Domain Theatre
Charges apply
Art for starters: An introduction to European art history BOOKED OUT
With Liz Gibson
Image: Edouard Detaille Vive L’Empereur! 1891 (detail) Art Gallery of New South Wales collection
Saturdays 6, 13, 20 July and 10, 17, 24 August 2019, 2pm
Duration 2 hours, 30 minutes
Location: Centenary Auditorium
Charges apply
Sydney Asian Art Series 2019
Art and urban culture
Image: Isfahan, Chehel Sotun (Forty Pillar) Palace, detail of the mural in the audience hall, Feasting reception hosted by Shah Abbas the Great, mid-17th century. Photo © Sussan Babaie
Various dates and times
28 March – 26 October 2019
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Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
Free, bookings recommended
Art appreciation lecture series 2019
Being human: The figure in art
Image: Charles Meere Australian beach pattern 1940 (detail) © Charles Meere Estate/Copyright Agency 2018
Various Wednesdays 6pm and Thursdays 1pm
30 January – 14 November 2019
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Duration 1 hour
Location: Domain Theatre
Charges apply
Sydney Asian Art Series 2017
Beyond the studio: contexts for Asian art
Image: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar signed by Mubarak Mirza, b Mahmud, Iran, mid 19th century, private collection
9 March – 19 October 2017
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Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
Free, bookings required