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Gallery defends staff cuts as 'funding cliff' looms

Officials from the Art Gallery of NSW have defended job cuts and say executives have not been shielded.

AAP · Oct 15, 2025

Beneath the Art Gallery of NSW, artist Mike Hewson has created a summer wonderland – BYO sausages and swimmers

The Aotearoa New Zealand-born engineer-turned artist has created an art park of usable, social sculptures in the gallery’s underground Tank space, including a barbecue, playground and sauna

The Guardian - AU · Oct 3, 2025

Archibald prize 2024: Laura Jones wins $100,000 for portrait of Tim Winton

Decision announced at the Art Gallery of NSW, where all finalists will be exhibited to the public from Saturday

The Guardian - AU · Jun 7, 2024

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‘I’m going to defy expectations’: Western Sydney artist Marikit Santiago wins $80,000 La Prairie award

Lush portraits of Filipino-Australian family will join Art Gallery of NSW collection, as the artist travels to Europe to visit Renaissance paintings that inspired her

The Guardian - AU · Mar 12, 2024

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

The Guardian - AU · Oct 6, 2023

Art Gallery of NSW returns carved Nepalese goddess 20 years after discovering it was stolen

Art Gallery of New South Wales has returned an 800-year-old wooden carving to the Nepalese temple it was taken from, but after 20 years of work, and with so many more stolen pieces in their collection, experts say more needs to be done.

ABC News · May 16, 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

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From radical to reactionary: the achievements and legacy of the influential artist John Olsen

After media outlets breathlessly described the late John Olsen as a “genius”, I found myself humming The Chasers’ Eulogy Song.

The Conversation · Apr 13, 2023

Abstract pioneer leads Sydney's blockbuster art line up

Seminal works by three of the behemoths of the art world will go on display in Sydney as part of a program designed to attract thousands to the harbour city.

AAP · Feb 14, 2023

Your ultimate Sydney events guide: the best things to do this weekend, and what’s on through December

Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals around the country. Here are some highlights for Sydney in December

The Guardian - AU · Dec 7, 2022

Crowds to explore new AGNSW building

The new Art Gallery of NSW building, part of the Sydney Modern project, has officially open with thousands expected to visit.

AAP · Dec 2, 2022

Art Gallery of NSW Sydney Modern Project opens new gallery with underground Tank space and top-rating sustainable design

Ten years in the making, the four-floor gallery will open to the public this weekend, boasting a 6-star rating for sustainable design — and a massive underground tank space.

ABC News · Dec 1, 2022

'A three-storey, luminous birdcage with suspended hanging gardens and an extensive crypt below': Sydney Modern is open at last

The Sydney Modern Project had the odds stacked against it since its inception in 2013. It has surely been the most controversial state gallery extension to be built in Australia.

The Conversation · Nov 30, 2022

Sydney Modern a gallery of light on dark

The new Art Gallery of NSW building is complete, filled with artworks, and will open its doors within days.

AAP · Nov 28, 2022

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The New Daily · Nov 25, 2022

Summer must-sees in every capital city

Head-turning art, delicious food, colourful shows – there's something for everyone to enjoy at this special time of year.

The Conversation · Sep 25, 2022

'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.

The Guardian - AU · Sep 21, 2022

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

ABC News · Aug 11, 2022

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.

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The Guardian - AU · Aug 3, 2022

Archibald prize 2022: Jeremy Eden’s portrait of actor Samuel Johnson wins people’s choice award

The Secret Life of Us actor and winning artist bonded over their shared experiences losing loved ones to cancer

The Conversation · Jun 7, 2022

Ways of Seeing at 50: an icy blast of a book about male voyeurism, art, capitalism and so much more

I still remember the shock when I first saw John Berger’s television series, Ways of Seeing, in 1972. In the years before Australia had colour television BBC art programs were often screened at the Art Gallery of NSW. (Previously the same venue had shown Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation).

Pedestrian.tv · May 14, 2022

First Nations Artist Blak Douglas Won The Archibald For Portrait Of Another First Nations Artist

His painting "Moby Dickens" focuses on the Lismore floods.

AAP · May 13, 2022

Archibald win 'symbolic of cultural shift'

Indigenous painter Blak Douglas has won the prestigious Archibald Prize for his portrait of fellow artist Karla Dickens during the recent floods in NSW.

The Guardian - AU · May 13, 2022

Archibald prize 2022: Blak Douglas wins $100,000 for portrait of Lismore artist Karla Dickens

The unanimous decision was announced on Friday at the Art Gallery of NSW, where all finalists will be exhibited from 14 May

The Conversation · May 12, 2022

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”.

The Guardian - AU · Mar 31, 2022

Painted with coffee and toothbrushes: Kurdish refugees enter the Archibald prize

Mostafa Azimitabar and Farhad Bandesh spent eight years in detention after fleeing war-torn homelands. Now they are vying for a $100,000 prize

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