COVID-19 for dummies
Taking inspiration from the Art Gallery of NSW’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, this Pocket Exhibition is a COVID-19 for dummies guide.
Collection
1 year ago by Coby Edgar
Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman
What’s in the box? Find out in this Together In Art series, which reveals treasures from behind the scenes of our museum.
Looking forward, looking back
The work of Elizabeth Rooney is both a premonition of the future and a confirmation of the past
Fifteen futures: part 2
The second of three instalments exploring art that compels us to think about the things to come.
Fifteen futures: part 1
The first of three instalments exploring art that compels us to think about the things to come.
Sidney Nolan
Head behind the scenes as we unpack some of the artist’s amazing artifacts and the stories behind them.
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.
Welcome from Michael Brand
Our director Michael Brand welcomes you back to our home on Gadigal Land as we open our doors to the world for the first time in ten weeks.
Art is my oxygen
There’s one thing more important than coming to the Art Gallery of NSW, and that is coming back.
Through young eyes
Our children’s guides and volunteers remember some of their favourite moments.
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.
A welcome bouquet
With the Gallery set to reopen, I’ve been imagining being greeted by the spectacular floral arrangements in our vestibule. Until then, here is a virtual welcome from artists in our collection.
Be my guide
The Gallery’s volunteer guides lead nine hypothetical visitors on a tour of their favourite works of art.
Scenes from the family album
Yes, yes, yes. Our doors are almost open and we can’t wait to welcome you back in!
Emerge from your iso chrysalides, anti-social butterflies
2 years ago by Claire Eggleston
Heather Shannon
Fall into the hauntingly beautiful sounds of ‘Midnight sun’, a piano composition by Heather Shannon.
The great indoors
It’s a mess, yes, but it’s your mess. This is your great indoors.
L-FRESH The LION
Witness the power and perception of south-west Sydney hip-hop artist L-FRESH The LION in this intimate spoken-word performance.
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.
Loss and renewal
Arthur Streeton’s life and art, upheavals and triumphs.
Sun, sand and social responsibility
As enigmatic as it is iconic, Charles Meere’s painting Australian beach pattern took on new meaning when COVID-19 closed Sydney’s beaches.
Henri Matisse's Jazz
Explore a story of imagination in a time of isolation, with this behind-the-scenes tour.
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.
A yōkai for our strange times
Meet Amabie, a talismanic mermaid-like creature said to shield people from illness.
In praise of care
To ask that we take care is to ask that we hold ourselves and others, gently.
