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Louise Bourgeois

Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?

By Justin Paton, Jamieson Webster, Jane Campion, Chris Kraus, Philip Larratt-Smith

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was one of the most influential artists of the past century. Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? explores the powerful emotional and formal...

Hoda Afshar

A Curve Is a Broken Line

By Isobel Parker Philip, Behrouz Boochani, Taous Dahmani, Shahram Khosravi, Isobel Parker Philip, Sarah Sentilles, Andrew Brooks, Astrid Lorange, Elyas Alavi, Hala Alyan

Through her photographs, Hoda Afshar examines the politics of image making. Deeply researched yet emotionally sensitive, her bodies of work are a form of activism as much as an artistic inquiry. Alert to the duplicity...

Dreamhome

Stories of Art and Shelter

By Justin Paton

This unique and engagingly written book reveals how some of today's most exciting artists are reimagining the idea of home for our unsettled times. In his evocative style, Justin Paton investigates a place we all...

The Sydney Modern Project

Transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales

By Michael Brand, Ross Gibson

With the completion of its Sydney Modern Project—encompassing a beautiful new building designed by award-winning Japanese architects SANAA and a unique art garden along with transformed displays of art across its campus—the Art Gallery of...

Daniel Boyd

Treasure Island

By Isobel Parker Philip, Erin Vink, Daniel Browning, Léuli Eshraghi, Isobel Parker Philip, Michael Mossman, Nathan ‘Mudyi’ Sentance, Erin Vink

Daniel Boyd (b. 1982) is one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists. His practice is internationally recognized for its engagement with the colonial history of the Australia–Great Ocean (Pacific) region. Drawing upon intermingled discourses of science,...

Matisse: Life and Spirit

Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris

By Aurélie Verdier, Justin Paton, Jackie Dunn, Roger Benjamin, Patrice Deparpe, Justin Paton, Aurélie Verdier, Alastair Wright

Spanning six decades of the artist’s work, Matisse: Life & Spirit presents an extraordinary immersion in the range and depth of the art of Henri Matisse, one of the world’s most beloved, innovative and influential...

The Exhibitionists

A History of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales

By Steven Miller

In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrated its 150th anniversary. Since its founding as an academy of art in 1871, its evolution into one of Australia’s premier public art museums is testament...

Hilma af Klint

The Secret Paintings

By Sue Cramer, Nicholas Chambers

Hidden from view for decades, the work of Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) has captured the imagination of contemporary audiences. She is now widely regarded as a pioneer of twentieth-century abstract art. Her paintings are monumental...

Tony Tuckson

By Denise Mimmocchi

Tony Tuckson’s story is not a simple one. He was an artist, arguably Australia’s most significant abstract expressionist painter, but he also played a crucial role in shaping the modern art museum in Australia. This...

Heaven & Earth in Chinese Art

Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei

By Cao Yin. With Karyn Lai and entries by National Palace Museum curators

This publication presents some of the highest artistic achievements in Chinese history. Drawing on the exceptional collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Heaven and Earth in Chinese Art: Treasures from the National Palace...

Nongirrna Marawili

From My Heart and Mind

By Cara Pinchbeck, Kade McDonald

Noŋgirrŋa Marawili is one of the most distinctive Aboriginal artists working today. From her home in Yirrkala, Marawili has revolutionized the art of northeastern Arnhem Land while adhering to cultural protocols. In her prints, drawings...

John Russell

Australia's French Impressionist

By Wayne Tunnicliffe

Australian artist John Russell (1858–1930), an active and influential member of the French nineteenth-century avant garde, was a close friend of Vincent van Gogh and Auguste Rodin, taught impressionist color theory to Henri Matisse, and...

Adman

Warhol before Pop

By Nicholas Chambers, Richard Meyer, Blake Gopnik, Brett Littman, Matt Wrbican, Nina Schleif, Thomas Sokolowski, Ellen Lupton

With the backdrop of 1950s New York and its burgeoning advertising industry, Adman focuses on the formative years of one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists, Andy Warhol. Essays by Warhol scholars and other...

Victorian Watercolours

By Peter Raissis

This book features over eighty artworks by more than seventy artists that represent the glory of British watercolors from the Victorian period. Artists include: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne‐Jones, George John Pinwell and Myles Birket...

Art from Milingimbi

Taking Memories Back

By Cara Pinchbeck
With Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby

There are particular moments in the history of art when exceptional things happen. Such a moment occurred in the 1950s in Milingimbi, the small island community in Arnhem Land in far northern Australia. Gathered in...

The Photograph and Australia

By Judy Annear
With Geoffrey Batchen, Michael Aird, Katherine Davidson, Jane Lydon, and Daniel Palmer

Visually rich with fine reproductions and high-level production, this book tells the many stories of photography in Australia over the last 175 years. It will examine the sense of wonder which the photograph can still...

Plumes and Pearlshells

Art of the New Guinea Highlands

By Natalie Wilson, Florence Kamel, Michael Mel

Spectacular exchange ceremonies involving hundreds of dancers festooned with elaborate body adornments – including highly prized bird of paradise plumes and the revered kina, or pearlshell – is something for which the peoples of the...

Theatre of Dreams, Theatre of Play

No and Kyogen in Japan

By Khanh Trinh, Monica Bethe, Eric C. Rath, J. Thomas Rimer, Mikio Takemoto

Dating from the 15th to early 20th century, 160 works from the rich material culture of Japanese no and kyogen theatre (nogaku)— including masks and costumes as well as paintings, musical instruments and libretti—have been...

Tradition Today

Indigenous Art in Australia

By Art Gallery of New South Wales

The expanded and revised edition of this popularbook includes nine new artists - Tony Albert, Jakayu Biljabu, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Julie Gough, Ivy Pareroultja, EsmeTimbery, Wingu Tingima, Harry Tjutjuna, and Barrupu Yunupingu - and...

Drawing Out

Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2014

By Anne Ryan

The inaugural Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial presents the work of ten artists for whom drawing is the core of their practice, and who work in or from the landscape. The artists included are Tom Carment,...