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PUBLIC GALLERIES

    Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay

  1. On 29th March 2012, a bold, new and significantly expanded Museum of Contemporary Art was unveiled to the public.
  2. WANGECHI MUTU
    Until 14 August 2013
    Be drawn into contemplations on beauty, consumerism, colonialism, race, and gender through Mutu’s exquisite, provocative works.
  3. JEFF WALL Photographs
    1 May - 28 July 2013
    See why Wall is recognised as one of the most intriguing and influential artists working today.
  4. VOLUME ONE: MCA COLLECTION
    Permanent collection reflecting the breadth of Australian Contemporary Art over the past 20 years.

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Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

  1. TONY ALBERT: Projecting our future
    until 7 July 2013
    The final part in a major trilogy, the work considers cultural difference in relation to pride, optimism and solidarity.
  2. LLOYD REES
    until 7 Jul 2013
    One of Australia’s most admired artists, Lloyd Rees (1895-1988) was also one of the pre-eminent landscape artists of his age.
  3. BRENDA L CROFT
    until 8 Sep 2013
    Croft’s works explore issues faced by many Aboriginal people today, including the ongoing effects of the ‘Stolen Generations’, preconceptions of who is actually of Aboriginal heritage and what an Aboriginal person is supposed to look like in contemporary Australian society.
  4. THE SPACE BETWEEN US
    until 28 July 2013
    The space between us explores the relation between video and performance art through the work of seven talented emerging artists.
  5. BILL HENSON: CLOUD LANDSCAPES
    until 22 Sep 2013
    The exhibition highlights Henson’s sustained interest in depicting landscapes as well as figures, while drawing out the importance of music.
  6. DADANG CHRISTANTO: THEY GIVE EVIDENCE
    15 Sep 2012 – 21 Jul 2013
    Christanto’s works speak eloquently for the victims of oppression and social injustice.
  7. SOUL OF SIMPLICITY: SEVEN CENTURIES OF KOREAN CERAMICS
    8 Feb 2013 – 21 Apr 2014
    Such was the technical prowess of Korean potters, Chinese envoys in the 12th century reported glazes that had the 'radiance of jade and the clarity of water’.

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Australian Centre for Photography

257 Oxford Street Paddington NSW 2021

  1. PAT BRASSINGTON | DAVID BURNETT | ROBERT BESANKO
    1 June – 18 August 2013
    Pat Brassington À Rebours brings together significant works from the artist’s career, which spans three decades.| David Burnett was one of the last photojournalists to cover the Vietnam War for Life magazine and is one of the few photographers who has created images of all US presidents since JFK.| In the sixth instalment of Robert Besanko’s Contemplations, a project revealed monthly over a twelve month period, audiences are invited to contemplate the unique differences between traditional analogue photography and new digital representations of the works.

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S H Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, The Rocks

  1. ALL FIRED UP: PETER RUSHFORTH, POTTER
    12 JULY - 25 AUGUST (Gallery closed and re-opening from 12 July)
    This retrospective exhibition celebrates his six decade long contribution to ceramics.

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MORE EVENTS

Customs House, Alfred St, Circular Quay

  1. RAÚL CAÑIBANO ERCILLA: A RETROSPECTIVE
    23 May to 22 July 2013/
    His work over the last twenty years records social and environmental reflections of post-revolutionary Cuba. This Photographic Retrospective is an exhibition of cultural diversity, sensitivity and insight.
  2. HEAD ON PHOTO FESTIVAL /
    Kourtney Roy’s AUTO MYTHS and Melissa Cacciola’s WAR AND PEACE.
    until 15 July 2013
    As an artist, Roy is fascinated with the creation of a tragic mythology of self, counterpointing her childhood adventures in the wilds of northern Ontario, Canada. War and Peace presents a collection of tintype portraits of serving military personnel and veterans in a mood of confession, to the camera.

CarriageWorks

245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh NSW 2015

  1. HERE AND NOW
    until 10 June 2013
    HERE AND NOW offers new commissions and limited edition works by Australian artists and designers which are only available at Carriageworks. The spirit of HERE AND NOW is artist-driven and experimental.

Macquarie University Art Gallery

Art Gallery, Building E11A, Macquarie University, North Ryde NSW 2109

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  1. GALLERYEIGHT 12 Argyle Place Millers Point NSW 2000
    BRIDGING: GARY COCKBURN AND KRISTIAN LAEMMLE-RUFF
    5th - 23rd JUNE 2013

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