Attention delegates to the ICOM Conference in Melbourne 11-16 October:

The Art Gallery of New South Wales invites you to a special half-day
pre-conference event on the Friday immediately before ICOM opens. You will
be able to go behind the scenes to talk to some of the staff, view the
permanent collection and any of seven temporary exhibitions (listed below)
free-of-charge and experience some of our public programmes first-hand.

Date: Friday 9th October
Time: 10.00 am - 12.45 pm (including morning tea)

If you are interested in attending, please contact Jonathan Cooper at the
Art Gallery on phone (61-2) 9225 1796, fax (61-2) 9221 5129 or e-mail
<[log in to unmask]>. (Please let him know what aspect of museum work
you are involved/interested in.)

We look forward to meeting you.

Edmund Capon
Director


Some Background to the Art Gallery of NSW and its Collections:
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The Art Gallery of New South Wales is the state's leading fine art museum
and one of Australia's most popular cultural institutions.

The Art Gallery's principal strengths are our collections of Australian,
Asian and contemporary art. A major feature is the Yiribana gallery, which
houses the most comprehensive presentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander art in Australia. In addition to paintings and sculptures, the
Gallery also has extensive holdings of photography, drawings, watercolours
and artists' prints.

The Art Gallery also holds more than thirty temporary exhibitions annually,
many with related public programmes.

The exhibitions:
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* Every Day: 11th Biennale of Sydney
  - The southern hemisphere's pre-eminent contemporary art event.

* A material thing: Objects from the Collection
  - Three-dimensional artworks from the Gallery's "Yiribana" Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander collection.

* Lion Among Painters: Chinese Master Chang Dai Chien (Zhang Daiqian)
  - The last great traditionalist of literati painting and a pioneer of
modernism.

* Australian Collection Focus Series: Tom Roberts "Bailed Up" 1895/1927
  - An in-depth look at one of the most popular paintings in Australia.

* Dark Visions: The Etchings of Goya
  - Approx. 100 etchings from the collection of the Art Gallery of South
Australia.

* Arcadia: nineteenth century Australian photography
  - Photographs of the Australian land between 1870 and 1900.

* Ken Unsworth
  - One of Australia's most respected and popular contemporary sculptors


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