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Move over Sydney Opera House – there’s a new superstar in town

It has been called the most significant cultural addition to the Australian city for 50 years. So how does the airy cascade of new galleries measure up? We take a tour of the A$344m (£191m) project

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The Chinese Guardian statue taken during the Boxer Rebellion

The Chinese Guardian statue taken during the Boxer Rebellion

This Boxer Rebellion relic, an ancient Chinese guardian statue, represents stories of massacres, humiliation and colonial trauma. So how did it get to Sydney?

Aboriginal artists, including Hermannsburg Potters, elevated in new Art Gallery of NSW expansion

Aboriginal artists, including Hermannsburg Potters, elevated in new Art Gallery of NSW expansion

Once found on the bottom floor of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists have been elevated in a new display featuring works from across the country.

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'Like walking into a crystal': our first preview of the Art Gallery of NSW's new Sydney Modern

In 1972, when the Art Gallery of New South Wales opened its first modern building, it was rightly praised for its innovative design.

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Art Gallery of NSW: Adrián Villar Rojas to take over WWII bunker as Sydney Modern unveiled

The acclaimed Argentinian sculptor’s immersive installation will headline the gallery’s $344m expansion, which opens in December

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Aboriginal art is making waves overseas – but some major myths need busting

To help you better appreciate the wide, wonderful world of Indigenous art, we’re busting some big myths and misconceptions.

How South-East Asian art sold in Australia passed through the hands of a suspected smuggler

New evidence uncovered by the ABC has linked Thai and Cambodian art works sold in Australia back to looted historic sites and a shady Bangkok dealer.

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How the art of Daniel Boyd turns over the apple cart of accepted white Australian history

How the art of Daniel Boyd turns over the apple cart of accepted white Australian history

Daniel Boyd’s solo exhibition Treasure Island, now on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is a deeply political and personal interrogation of Australia’s colonial history.

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From gum trees to cities to sweeping deserts: how 125 years of the Wynne Prize traces Australia's shifting relationship to our landscape

From gum trees to cities to sweeping deserts: how 125 years of the Wynne Prize traces Australia's shifting relationship to our landscape

It is fair to say that Richard Wynne, who died in 1895, would not recognise many recent entries in the art prize that he endowed with £1,000 to reward a “landscape painting of Australian scenery”.

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This Archibald Portrait Of Ultimate Daddy Taika Waititi Just Won A Prize & BRB Gonna Heist It

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