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Four decades of work from master surrealist René Magritte arrives at Art Gallery of NSW

According to curator Nicholas Chambers the artist was ‘a real prankster, quite a rascal, actually’

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The surreal world of René Magritte comes to Australia

The first-ever Australian retrospective dedicated to the influential surrealist René Magritte opens at the Art Gallery of NSW.

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Newcastle teenager a finalist in Young Archie competition

'My artwork is of my dad. I love my dad.'

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'Beautiful' Langton tribute the public Archibald choice

The artist whose portrait of an esteemed Indigenous activist won the Archibald People's Choice says the prize is a platform to speak about important people.

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Art runs in the family at Young Archies portrait awards

A portrait of a best mate underwater in a Japanese anime helmet is among the winners at the 2024 Young Archies at the Art Gallery of NSW.

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Surrealist Magritte leads blockbuster summer art shows

Art by pioneering surrealist René Magritte, Chinese contemporary artist Cao Fei, and Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu will go on show in Sydney.

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Archibald Prize 2024: this year’s finalists range from downright fun to politically ferocious

Wayne Tunnicliffe, head of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, has a sense of humour. The main entrance to this year’s Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition features a giant black and white photograph of a student demonstration from 1953. At the time the gallery trustees, who are…

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Newcastle artist Nigel Milsom named finalist in Sulman prize

Milsom won the $40,000 prize in 2012.

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Art Nouveau pioneer features at Art Gallery of NSW

The work of Art Nouveau innovator Alphonse Mucha and abstract painting pioneer Lesley Dumbrell feature in the 2024 program at the Art Gallery of NSW.

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Nightmarish, playful, erotic: the revelatory Sydney show of art titan Louise Bourgeois

Spanning almost 130 works – including a number of showstoppers – the Art Gallery of NSW pays homage to the strange fruits of the late artist’s psyche

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Ten metres high and 10 tonnes: Louise Bourgeois’ giant spider crawls into Sydney

Titled Maman, the bronze, steel and marble arachnid will be the looming centrepiece of the Art Gallery of NSW’s major summer exhibition

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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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'Real joy' to be had viewing Kandinsky's art in Sydney

New York's famed Guggenheim Museum has lent key paintings by Vasily Kandinsky to the Art Gallery of NSW for a major exhibition.

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Solange review – deliciously witchy performance art poses questions for new Volume festival

The Art Gallery of NSW’s festival merges performance art and music – a disjunction the audience may not always be prepped for

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Sydney’s $344m gallery has been open for eight months – so why doesn’t it have a name?

Political intervention and conflicting advice over Indigenous language use are at the heart of the impasse over the addition to the Art Gallery of NSW

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Stolen 800-year-old temple carving finally being returned to Nepal

A 13th-century sculpture stolen from a Nepal temple in 1975 before landing in an Australian gallery has been returned.

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Art Gallery of NSW to hand back 800-year-old carving that was stolen from Nepalese temple

The gallery is preparing to hand back a sacred medieval wooden carving, nearly two years after it was identified on social media as being stolen from the Kathmandu Valley.

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As Julia Gutman’s maverick collage wins the Archibald prize, the award is truly in the hands of a new generation

Julia Gutman’s Archibald-winning portrait of the singer Montaigne and Zaachariaha Fielding’s winning entry, Inma, in the Wynne Prize have more in common than their youth – although it is worth noting they both represent a new generation of artists, a changing of the guard at the Art Gallery of NSW’s…

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A shade of Newcastle in Archibald Prize

The image is titled Echoes of a teenage superstar.

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The National 4: major survey of contemporary Australian art invites a closer look

Now open across four of Sydney’s major art venues, the biennial exhibition seeks to ‘broaden the idea of what Australian art is’

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‘We get to hear the stories’: unpacking the Archibald prize at the Art Gallery of NSW

More than 2,000 works will go through the gallery’s packing room this week as artists deliver their entries for Australia’s most prestigious portrait, landscape and genre prizes

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