In 2017 the Art Gallery of New South Wales continues to present exhibitions on significant Australian and international artists including Andy Warhol, Rembrandt, Georgia O’Keeffe along with Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith, Mikala Dwyer, Mervyn Bishop, Robert Mapplethorpe and many more.
Nude: art from the Tate collection
In a partnership between Tate, London and the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Nude: art from the Tate collection will present over 100 major representations of the nude, including paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints by renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud, Henri Matisse, Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas and Sarah Lucas.
From 5 November, 2016
Adman: Warhol before pop
Drawn exclusively from The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, this is the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Warhol’s early career in more than 25 years.
25 February to 28 May, 2017
John Olsen: the you beaut country
Surveys the remarkable, seven-decade career of one of Australia’s most distinguished artists
10 March to 12 June, 2017
O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: making modernism
The iconic art of American Georgia O’Keeffe alongside modernist masterpieces by pioneering Australian artists Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith.
July to 2 October, 2017
Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect medium
Explores the work of one of the most influential visual artists of late 20th-century America
28 October, 2017 to 18 February, 2018
Rembrandt and the Dutch golden age
The first exhibition at the Gallery devoted to the greatest Dutch painters of the 17th century and the flourishing artistic culture of the time
11 November, 2017 to 18 February, 2018
Other highlights include The National 2017: new Australian art; Passion and procession: art of the Philippines as part of the Bayanihan Philippines Art Project; Mikayla Dwyer; and
the return of The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes.
Auguste Rodin, The Kiss, 1901-04, Pentelic marble, 182.2 × 121.9 × 153cm
Tate: purchased with assistance from the Art Fund and public contributions 1953. Image © Tate London, 2016.
Melton-Pippin, Andy Warhol with head cradled in hands (detail), c1950
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc © Melton-Pippin
John Olsen, Golden summer, Clarendon, 1983
Art Gallery of New South Wales © John Olsen, licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
Georgia O’Keeffe, Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory, 1938
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, gift of The Burnett Foundation © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-portrait, 1980
Promised gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to The J Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Rembrandt, Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul, 1661
Collection Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
