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Think you have strong opinions about the 2026 Archibald prize? Check out the portraits that didn’t make the cut

The judges’ selections are, as always, bonkers – but there’s something beautifully daggy about the whole thing too

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Life-size portrait of Aboriginal Elder wins Archibald

A portrait of Pitjantjatjara Elder, Iluwanti Ken, by artist Richard Lewer has won Australia's biggest portrait award, taking home the $100,000 Archibald Prize.

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Hamlet 'double portrait' wins Archibald packers' prize

Sean Layh has pocketed a time-honoured art award, with the subject of his innovative prize-winning portrait both real and fictional.

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Artists draw on childhood heroes for Archie inspiration

Colourful characters have flooded the packing room with paintings and sculptures in hopes of prevailing in Australian art's most talked-about contest.

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Sydney Biennale 2026: politics is everywhere – but with nuance, beauty and heart

The festival became a political flashpoint well before the program reveal – but the featured works focus not on spectacle and slogan but on a polyphony of voices singing their own songs

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The Art Gallery of NSW has transformed into a space to cook, play, do laundry and linger

Children’s screams echo off concrete walls as they navigate bright-painted monkey bars. Families huddle around a sausage sizzle. Teenagers lounge on borrowed towels near a palm grove. Washing machines hum quietly in the corner.

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Gallery defends staff cuts as 'funding cliff' looms

Officials from the Art Gallery of NSW have defended job cuts and say executives have not been shielded.

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'Sketchy' future for top gallery as job cuts loom

Job cuts at one of Australia's top art galleries will hurt its ability to host some of its biggest and best exhibitions, union members warn.

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'Pioneer': Dawson's 60 years of pushing art to the edge

For the first time at a state art gallery, patrons will be given a unique insight into the extraordinary artistic range of Archibald Prize winner Janet Dawson.

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From Arnhem Land to the world, power of art on show

Artists connected to the remote Yirrkala community in East Arnhem Land were among the first Indigenous Australians to use their art for political ends.

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Archibald Packing Room Prize goes to Abdul Abdullah for Jason Phu portrait, among broader set of bold and deeply personal works

More than 50 years ago, when I was a junior curatorial assistant at the Art Gallery of NSW, I had the daunting experience of hanging the annual Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.

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Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art is now charging for entry. It’s a sign our cultural sector needs help

From January 31, Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) will reintroduce ticketed entry, charging adults $20 for general admission and $35 for combined special exhibitions and museum entry. Entry will remain free for Australian students and people under 18.

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Find humanity in a surreal high-tech city with Cao Fei

At the exhibition Cao Fei: My City is Yours, people can imagine their virtual identities, or contemplate the loss that accompanies relentless urbanisation.

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Four decades of work from master surrealist René Magritte arrives at Art Gallery of NSW

According to curator Nicholas Chambers the artist was ‘a real prankster, quite a rascal, actually’

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The surreal world of René Magritte comes to Australia

The first-ever Australian retrospective dedicated to the influential surrealist René Magritte opens at the Art Gallery of NSW.

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Newcastle teenager a finalist in Young Archie competition

'My artwork is of my dad. I love my dad.'

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'Beautiful' Langton tribute the public Archibald choice

The artist whose portrait of an esteemed Indigenous activist won the Archibald People's Choice says the prize is a platform to speak about important people.

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Art runs in the family at Young Archies portrait awards

A portrait of a best mate underwater in a Japanese anime helmet is among the winners at the 2024 Young Archies at the Art Gallery of NSW.

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Surrealist Magritte leads blockbuster summer art shows

Art by pioneering surrealist René Magritte, Chinese contemporary artist Cao Fei, and Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu will go on show in Sydney.

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Archibald Prize 2024: this year’s finalists range from downright fun to politically ferocious

Wayne Tunnicliffe, head of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, has a sense of humour. The main entrance to this year’s Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition features a giant black and white photograph of a student demonstration from 1953. At the time the gallery trustees, who are…

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Newcastle artist Nigel Milsom named finalist in Sulman prize

Milsom won the $40,000 prize in 2012.

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Art Nouveau pioneer features at Art Gallery of NSW

The work of Art Nouveau innovator Alphonse Mucha and abstract painting pioneer Lesley Dumbrell feature in the 2024 program at the Art Gallery of NSW.

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Nightmarish, playful, erotic: the revelatory Sydney show of art titan Louise Bourgeois

Spanning almost 130 works – including a number of showstoppers – the Art Gallery of NSW pays homage to the strange fruits of the late artist’s psyche

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Ten metres high and 10 tonnes: Louise Bourgeois’ giant spider crawls into Sydney

Titled Maman, the bronze, steel and marble arachnid will be the looming centrepiece of the Art Gallery of NSW’s major summer exhibition

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‘Sheer spectacle’: biggest Kandinsky show to reach Australia opens in Sydney

You may know his Blue Mountain but there’s much more to the impenetrable artist, says the curator of the Art Gallery of NSW show

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