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The National Gallery announces its next chapter with a new wing and modern art, Sotheby’s and Independent 20th Century to partner next year, the launch of bicoastal merger Hoffman Donahue, and more.

Sydney Contemporary 2025 will be the fair’s largest edition in its history, running from September 11–14 at the multi-arts center Carriageworks with a lineup of 114 exhibitors and more than 500 participating artists.

Sydney Contemporary has unveiled details of the fair’s ninth edition, which will include the first instalment of Photo Sydney, a section solely dedicated to photography that was formed in response to collector demand for wider representation of the medium.

In 2025, there is no shortage of art fairs taking place around the world. While the past several years have seen multiple new entries to the already packed calendar, particularly in Asian capital cities, so far 2025 promises just one new fair: Untitled Houston in Texas.

While total sales were down 17%, some galleries celebrated their best year at the fair yet.

As galleries from across Australia, New Zealand, and much further afield were setting up their stalls with the works of over 400 contemporary artists within Sydney’s cavernous Carriageworks—overseen by Lisa Roet’s.

Sydney Contemporary 2024 | Lennox St. Gallery | John Aslanidis x Louis Pratt.

A work by the late Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye carrying a hefty $3.35 million price tag is the star attraction of this year’s Sydney Contemporary, Australia’s biggest art fair.

Paddy Bedford (c.1922–2007) began painting on canvas in 1998.

Art Leven presents the work of senior Walpiri artist Lily Yirdingali Jurrah Hargraves Nungarrayi (1930–2018), an overlooked yet prolific artist who painted in the style that embodies the work from Lajamanu, Northern Territory.

Influenced by the figurative painting of the Italian Renaissance, Graeme Drendel constructs his work by placing his subjects in the barren Mallee plains of his childhood.

Damien Shen is a South Australian man of Ngarrindjeri and Chinese descent.

From Gija Country in the Kimberley to inner city bars over east, and from the comfort of home to the secret life of birds, OLSEN Gallery...

The Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery’s booth of carefully curated works at Sydney Contemporary 2024 is drawn from their archive, which includes key historical moments, over the gallery’s forty-two-year history.

Graeme Drendel makes his debut at Sydney Contemporary with a new body of work, Static and Silence.