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Current cultural citizens: the importance of creating spaces in art galleries for young people

Galleries and art museums can be intimidating and alienating even for adults. Imagine it from a child’s point of view. Stern security guards in uniforms stationed the doors, bags checked, snacks banned and people hushed. It’s no wonder that kids groan when an excursion to the gallery comes up.

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The work of Chinese artist Cao Fei explores our brave new human condition in a technological world

Internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Cao Fei’s first retrospective in Australia, My City is Yours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, sets out to disorient and overstimulate the senses.

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Neon cities, cyber nightmares and yum cha: Cao Fei, the visionary artist charting China’s past and future

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

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Vale Leon Paroissien: the first director of the Museum of Contemporary Art who shaped how Australians experience art

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

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Angelica Mesiti’s The Rites of When finally makes sense of the Art Gallery of NSW’s Tank. It is worth the plane flight

The Nelson Packer Tank, that cavernous space at the very bottom of the Art Gallery of NSW’s Naala Badu building, has been waiting for art like this.

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Powerhouse Museum acquires David Jones’ archive, brimming with forgotten stories of Australia’s past

David Jones is donating its archive to Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, it has been announced today. It is a timely reminder of the significance of “DJs”, Australia’s oldest department store, to the development of modern Australia.

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Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau: 100 years after its creation, his work is still a balm for a world in upheaval

Alphonse Mucha’s body of work is full of contradictions.

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Laura Jones wins the 2024 Archibald Prize with a portrait of Tim Winton, part of a grand artistic tradition

In awarding this year’s Archibald Prize to Laura Jones’ portrait of the writer Tim Winton, the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales are doing what they do best: catapulting a relatively unknown artist to instant fame and possible fortune.

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Kandinsky at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: a precious gem of a show celebrating the transformative power of art

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.

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‘Sheer spectacle’: biggest Kandinsky show to reach Australia opens in Sydney

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

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How photography can reveal, overlook and manipulate truth: the fearless work of Australian Iranian artist Hoda Afshar

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.

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Archibald prize 2023: Noni Hazlehurst portrait wins people’s choice award

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

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