Chris Haskett
Enter the scorched rustic world of Russell Drysdale’s 1940s landscapes with the wandering mood of Chris Haskett’s ‘Lost Dog’.
Behind closed doors
4 weeks ago
Sumn Conduit
Australian duo Sumn Conduit create a densely layered sound-work for voice and electronics exploring ‘The tongue in the middle of the port’ by American artist Mark Bradford.
A date with art
To celebrate our reopening week, we gave people the chance to have an up-close and personal encounter with art before opening hours with our Art Date competition.
Rainbow Chan Melt
Through the colourful reflections of Ugo Rondinone’s clockwork for oracles, Rainbow Chan performs her beautiful song ‘Melt’ in the final empty days of the Gallery.
Delta Goodrem
Keep climbing
Wander the Art Gallery of New South Wales to the soaring song of Australia’s Delta Goodrem, who performs her new song ‘Keep climbing’ amidst the epic artworks and classic architecture of the Grand Courts.
Scenes from the family album
Yes, yes, yes. Our doors are almost open and we can’t wait to welcome you back in!
Art interrupted: part 1
What does art want? Art wants to be looked at! Shining a light on shows that have been left in the dark.
Heather Shannon
Fall into the hauntingly beautiful sounds of ‘Midnight sun’, a piano composition by Heather Shannon.
Conserving a classic
Switch on for a slow TV experience as senior conservator Simon Ives cleans Arthur Streeton’s The Gloucester Buckets from 1894.
Art interrupted: part 2
Some of the exhibitions we wished we’d seen in person before the pandemic interrupted.
Maissa Alameddine
This sublime sensory experience by performance artist Maissa Alameddine, set against a vibrant abstract painting by Lesley Dumbrell, features ‘Hal Asmar el Lon’, a traditional Arabic song about yearning for the beloved.
Some mysterious process
Drone alone! Take a tour through some of our empty galleries awaiting their artworks.
Henri Matisse's Jazz
Explore a story of imagination in a time of isolation, with this behind-the-scenes tour.
Sarah Belkner & Sarah Belkner
Be drawn into a dialogue between music and art, as singer Sarah Belkner steps through the looking glass to perform inside Shadow catchers.
Shadow catchers
Discover doubles, ghosts and mirror worlds in this video tour.
Night in the museum
It’s sad to think of our Gallery closed, but the photographic series Las meninas reborn in the night I-VIII by Yasumasa Morimura helps take the edge off the melancholy.
Joji Malani
Bringing a silent space to life, Fijian guitarist Joji Malani performs an electrifying arrangement of music in the Gallery’s Grand Courts.
Ngaiire
Fall into my arms
Filmed just days after the Gallery’s closure to the public, Ngaiire performs ‘Fall into my arms’, our first Together In Art performance.
What art museums can do during the coronavirus crisis
This is a story of crisis and hope.
