04/12/2003. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents today “James Gleeson - Drawings for Paintings,” on view through June 15, 2003. This exhibition honors Australia’s most notable Surrealist. It is the first overview by the Art Gallery of ...

08/04/2003. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- The sponsors of the Dobell Prize for Drawing, the trustees of the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, have decided to double the prize <CORTE> money this year to $20,000. The Dobell Prize for Drawing is now u...

09/08/2003. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- The scaffolding has been removed and the culmination of the extensive building work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales - the new Asian galleries - will be unveiled to the public over the weekend of Satu...

10/25/2003. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- The scaffolding has been removed and the culmination of the extensive building work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales - the new <BOLETIN> Asian galleries - will be unveiled to the public over the week...

10/16/2004. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Robert Owen - Different Lights Cast Different Shadows through November 28, 2004. An exhibition of selected work created over more than 10 years by senior Australian artist Robert ...

01/18/2005. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- It was announced at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney today that Melbourne artist David Rosetzky is the recipient of the inaugural Anne Landa Award for moving image and new media work. For winning this Award, Dav...

08/06/2005. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.-It was announced at the Art Gallery of New South Wales today that Kevin Connor is the winner of the 2005 Dobell Prize for Drawing for his drawing, Le Grand Palais, Clémenceau, de Gaulle and me. Kevin Connor was awarded $...

09/23/2005. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.-The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents The Poetic Mandarin, Chinese Calligraphy from the James Hayes Collection on view through November 27, 2005. In late imperial China the art of calligraphy became the most esteemed o...

10/20/2006. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- Australia’s pre-eminent Surrealist painter, James Gleeson AO and his partner Frank O’Keefe, through the Gleeson O’Keefe Foundation, will give the Art Gallery of New South Wales $16 million dollars to acquire works for the ...

05/09/2008. SYDNEY.- This year more than 32,000 people voted in the People’s Choice for the Archibald Prize and their favourite portrait by far was Vincent Fantauzzo for his portrait of Heath Ledger called Heath. To date 130,000 people have visi...

07/08/2008. CARDIFF.- All four galleries have a particular focus on the art of Wales and landscape painting, and all of these elements come together in the Welsh Landscape Gallery, a spectacular space which explores how artists have responded to the chang...

09/05/2008. SYDNEY.- It was announced today at the Art Gallery of New South Wales that Virginia Grayson is the winner of the 2008 Dobell Prize for Drawing for her work, No conclusions drawn – self portrait. Virginia Grayson was awarded $20,000 for w...

03/31/2010. SYDNEY.- In 2000, in association with the Olympics in Sydney, the Art Gallery of New South Wales staged a special display of its Australian collections under the title, Australian Ic...

10/22/2010. SYDNEY.- Kenneth Reed today announced his intention to bequeath to the Art Gallery of New South Wales a substantial collection of old master paintings, Italian Maiolica and Europea...

04/02/2012. SYDNEY.- Tim Storrier was represented in last year’s Archibald Prize with another self-portrait without a face. Entitled Moon boy (self-portrait as a young man), the figure was represented by a suit of empty clothes hanging as if on a sca...