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

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

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

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.

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…

The image is titled Echoes of a teenage superstar.

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

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