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For her first major solo show in Australia, the Guangzhou-born artist has turned the Art Gallery of New South Wales into a bustling cityscape

In 1975 when Gough Whitlam opened the Manet to Matisse exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which had come to Australia from the United States, he proudly proclaimed it was only possible as the Australian government had

Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a pioneer of abstract art. His work and theories on art profoundly influenced the School of Paris, the American Abstract Expressionists, as well as the expressionist painters working in Australia.

You may know his Blue Mountain but there’s much more to the impenetrable artist, says the curator of the Art Gallery of NSW show

Through her poetically constructed images, Hoda Afshar illuminates a world overshadowed by history and atrocity. Yet we never see despair: we see defiance, comradeship, reinvention and a search for how photography can activate new ways of thinking.

Jaq Grantford’s portrait of the beloved actor and former Play School presenter wins $5,000 prize decided by the public