The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced its 2019 Exhibition Program, which will feature a major showcase of Chinese art from the National Palace Museum in Tapei, a wide-ranging exhibition of works by Marcel Duchamp, featuring 125 works and related documentary materials from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection, as well as a celebration of 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects. The AGNSW’s 2019 will also feature major exhibitions of work by Australian artists including Judy Watson, Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, Tony Tuckson, Ben Quilty and Brett Whiteley and a showcase of contemporary Australian artists titled The National 2019.

“At the Gallery in 2019, audiences can see pioneering works such as Kazimir Malevich’s ground-breaking modernist painting the Black Square (c.1930) on loan from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg,” said AGNSW Director Michael Brand referring to the Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage exhibition (previously announced as part of the Sydney International Art Series and featured in the October 2018 issue of Limelight). “They can see treasures from one of the finest collections of Chinese art in the world, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and in...