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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

The Guardian - AU · Nov 17, 2023

‘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

The Guardian - AU · Nov 3, 2023

'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.

AAP · Nov 2, 2023

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…

The Conversation · May 5, 2023

A shade of Newcastle in Archibald Prize

The image is titled Echoes of a teenage superstar.

Newcastle Herald · May 5, 2023

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’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 1, 2023

‘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

The Guardian - AU · Mar 29, 2023