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Grace Crowley, Les baigneuses (The bathers), 1928, oil on canvas on hardboard, 45.2 × 64.2 cm. National Gallery of Australia, gift of the artist 1979 © Reproduced with permission of Grace Crowley Estate

October 14, 2025

These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight

Victoria Souliman, University of Sydney

Dangerously Modern, on now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, marks an exciting new chapter in the project of reclaiming forgotten women artists.

René Magritte ‘Golconda (Golconde)’ 1953, oil on canvas, 80 x 100.3 cm, The Menil Collection, Houston, V 414 © Copyright Agency, Sydney 2024, photo: Paul Hester.

October 28, 2024

‘Consciousness, rationality and the search for meaning’: how René Magritte led the Belgian surrealist movement

Victoria Souliman, University of Sydney

Australia’s first major Magritte exhibition, held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, provides an in-depth look at the surrealist icon.

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