Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) developed a new language that defined the look of late nineteenth-century Paris and embodied the very spirit of art nouveau....
Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau
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Art is a Monster: The two worlds of Wendy Sharpe
Wendy Sharpe celebrates the human condition in her drawings, paintings, ceramics, sculptural forms, and site-specific wall murals with live artmaking....
What Does the Jukebox Dream Of?
Videogame joysticks, a fossilised radio, and VHS tapes spun into haunting life-size figures; this exhibition celebrates the playful ways artists reanimate supposed defunct media....
Kandinsky
Featuring over fifty works, this major exhibition traces the remarkable career of one of the great innovators of European abstraction, Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944)....
Hoda Afshar: A Curve Is a Broken Line
Deeply poetic and politically charged, Hoda Afshar's powerful photographic images blend documentary, conceptual, and staged photography....
Spotlight: The National 4: Australian Art Now
Four of Sydney’s leading visual arts institutions showcase forty-eight new artist projects involving more than eighty artists from across Country, generations, and communities....
Shelley Lasica: WHEN I AM NOT THERE
The work sees eight dancers (including Lasica) and objects in constant negotiation with each other, the space, and the visitors, unfolding across two weeks and offering a new encounter each day....
Doris Bush Nungarrayi, winner of the Sulman Prize 2023
Congratulations to Senior Luritja artist Doris Bush Nungarrayi, winner of the Sulman Prize 2023 for her work 'Mamunya ngalyananyi (Monster coming)'....
The National 4: Australian Art Now
The National 4: Australian Art Now, is exhibited across four locations, in a partnership between four leading Sydney institutions: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales....
Thea Anamara Perkins, 2023 recipient of La Prairie Art Award
The La Prairie Art Award supports Australian women artists through an international artist residency and the development or expansion of a new body of work, which is acquired by AGNSW for its collection....
The National 4: Australian Art Now | Artists announced
New works and commissions by 53 artists and collectives with shared themes from intergenerational learning and interconnectedness to a focus on language and narrative and the role of the artist today....
Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island
Daniel Boyd explores colonial history and multiplicity within narratives, and interrogates blackness as a form of First Nations’ resistance. Emma-Kate Wilson speaks with the artist....