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  • A black and white image of two men sitting around a rectangular table with crockery and food, and a brick wall behind them
    The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    Public art, private lives: Rauschenberg & Johns

    By David Greenhalgh

  • Two smiling women sitting on a couch with a collection of artworks hung on a wall behind them
    Studio Spotlight

    Family matters

    By Cressida Campbell, Nell Campbell, Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax

  • A photo of a woman sitting down listening to an audio tour.
    Behind the Scenes

    Seeing through sound

    By Brittany Burgess, Keir Winesmith

  • Two women sit on a timber bench, within a gallery space, surrounded by paintings and work of art suspended from the ceiling and walls
    Ideas & Initiatives

    The red thread of history

    By Tina Baum

  • Ideas & Initiatives

    Betty Churcher AO – still excellent

    By Keren Nicholson

  • Penny Evans stands behind a large and full work bench making her artworks
    Ceremony

    Penny Evans

  • A woman is sitting in font of a large wall of many portraits in a large gallery space
    Ideas & Initiatives

    Gender equity in the arts and culture context

  • A soft sculpture depiction of Parliament House surrounded by soft sculptures of people and native Australian animals and protest signs

    Blak power

  • A deep yellow pattern of repeated lines and dots
    First Nations

    Mantua Nangala

    By Hetti Perkins

  • A wide long photograph / still from a film with a First Nations man, wearing a yellow singlet and black shorts signing
    Ceremony

    Mind your language

    By Bruce Johnson Mclean

  • Black and white photograph of Koori artist SJ Norman sitting at a table surrounded by animal bones
    Ceremony

    S.J Norman

    By Aidan Hartshorn

  • Artist Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu carrying a camera and wearing a bright orange t-shirt walking walking through his hometown of Yirrkala in Northeast Arnhem Land
    First Nations

    Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu – Communicating Country

  • Cream coloured work of art with a dark brown crescent moon shape and a cross or star shape in the centre
    First Nations

    Mabel Juli: the moon and the stars

  • Lit by a single light, James Tylor sits in his darkened studio holding a daguerreotype photographic plate with gloved hands. He wears black and white Adidas trainers, olive chinos and a Kathmandu winter coat. He has dark short hair.
    Ceremony

    James Tylor

  • First Nations

    Remembering Mrs N. Yunupiŋu

  • Painting of an older man wearing a white shirt green vest and navy blue jacket with a red and white spotted neck tie, standing in front of a textured wall
    Jeffrey Smart

    The Sitters

  • Four people are walking in a large painting storage room, with many paintings hanging in tall wire storage racks
    First Nations

    Leading the Way

    By Ian R.T. Colless

  • Photograph of Sarah Lucas in front of her sculptures
    Sarah Lucas

    Slipping Through the Veil

    By Peter Johnson

  • Photograph of conservator checking small object with light

    Inside Vivienne Binn’s Tower of Babel

    By Alysha Redston

  • Image of Dr Matilda House and Paul Girrawah House in front of a scar tree
    Ceremony

    Madhan warrugarra wirimbirra gulbalanha

    By Paul Girrawah House

  • Hetti Perkins stands in front of two artworks.
    Ceremony

    Ceremony Curator's Letter

    By Hetti Perkins

  • A portrait of Dylan River standing outside.
    Ceremony

    Dylan River

    By Kelli Cole

  • Two woman in bright hats, jewellery, sunglasses and dresses have their arms around each other, posing for a photograph
    Know My Name

    Two of a kind

    By Georgina Safe

  • Wooden banner intricately carved with Maori design

    Stories from the Collection Study Room

  • A painting depicting the Mona Lisa on a corrugated iron fence

    A life in pictures

    By Deborah Hart

  • A group of young people stand posed in front of a wall

    Summer Scholarship

    By Adriane Boag

  • Two men using a pulley system to lower a boxed painting from a tall apartment block

    The American Connection

    By Michael Maher

  • Linocut print of child watching the silhouette of other children playing behind a bamboo screen

    At the Cutting Edge

    By Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax

  • Photograph of Bruce Beresford and Jeffery Smart in the artist's home

    Jeffrey and Me

    By Bruce Beresford

  • Blue poles carried by conservators behind a display of Tiffany lamps

    Blue poles: a new perspective

    By David Wise

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