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We're delighted to launch our new publication Making Art Public, Kaldor Public Art Projects, 1969–2019. Read More

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Congratulations to the following NSW Department of Education Stage 6 Visual Arts teachers, who have been selected from across Sydney and NSW to participate in our exciting professional development opportunity in partnership with The Arts Unit. Read More

Behind the scenes at Kaldor Public Art Projects, in a small room at the back of our office are an abundance of folders and boxes reaching from the floor to the ceiling. Inside the boxes we’ve collected thousands of items across our 50 year history of making 35 ground-breaking projects with Australian and international artists in public spaces.  Read More

Your Public Art Project offers a unique opportunity for Kaldor Public Art Projects to connect with primary and secondary schools across NSW throughout our 50th anniversary year. Our extended reach has led to rich engagements with students from Bourke, Dubbo, Parkes, Wilcannia, Western Sydney and Sydney’s Inner West. Read More

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50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects are reimagined in new survey exhibition by Michael Landy Read More

Over the past year acclaimed British artist Michael Landy has been visiting the Kaldor Public Art Projects archive to delve deep into our 50-year history.  Read More

Collective memory is the basis of a new project that brings 50 years of temporary artworks back to life  Read More

Michelle Demers is a scientific advisor and cultivator on Asad Raza's Absorption. We spoke to Michelle about the plant-science behind Absorption, and the potential for sharing scientific concepts through art. Read More

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Ivey Wawn is one of nine artistic collaborators who Asad Raza has invited to contribute to his work Absorption at the Clothing Store. Ivey has been a long-term Kaldor Public Art Projects contributor, having performed for Project 29: Tino Sehgal in 2014, and collaborated as part of Project 31: Xavier Le Roy in 2015. We spoke with Ivey about her new work Surfacing, which will be performed on Thursday 9 May 2019. Read More

Kaldor Public Art Projects and Carriageworks today announced the names of the artistic and scientific collaborators who will take part in Kaldor Public Art Project 34, Absorption, by Asad Raza. Read More

Last month we announced our next major project would be created by artist Asad Raza. Hailing from Buffalo, New York, Raza divides his time between New York City and Germany, creating artworks that move between disciplines and draw upon collaborations with artist-friends and family members. We sat down with Raza to find out more about his art practice, past works, and what he has planned for Project 34. Read More

Kaldor Public Art Projects is offering a unique internship opportunity within the Education and Public Programs department in our 50th anniversary year. Interested candidates from all disciplines, ages and abilities are welcome to apply.  Read More

Kaldor Public Art Projects and Carriageworks today announced Asad Raza  will create Kaldor Public Art Project 34, a new work presented free to the public from 3 until 19 May 2019. The project represents the first time the New York-based artist has presented his work in Australia.  Read More

When Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped 2.5 kilometres of Sydney’s coastline with one million square feet of fabric, not only was it the largest artwork at that time in the world, but it was the first time an international artist had create a major public artwork in Australia. Read More

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On October 24 2018, Kaldor Public Art Projects presented ALL SCHOOLS SHOULD BE ART SCHOOLS, a one-day symposium for art education professionals in partnership with UNSW Art & Design. Representatives from the NSW government sector, schools, nation-wide universities and major regional and metropolitan institutions in NSW, ACT and VIC attended the event. Speakers and attendees engaged in critical discussion on the importance of creative learning, with a focus on primary and secondary schools, and institutions for arts and culture. Read More

We're thrilled to be celebrating 50 years of groundbreaking public art projects in Australia in 2019. With so many exciting things in store for next year, we've been taking the time to reflect on our history by delving deep into the Kaldor Public Art Projects archive.  Read More

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MANDAANG GUWU (thank you) to everyone who has contributed gawuraa (feathers) to the giran gulbanha (wind philosophy) project. Read More

Finches are small birds, about 10cm long, that feed on grasses and seeds. They are found all around Australia, with many being endemic.  Read More

Often birds come together and fly in united flocks, performing extraordinary aerial acrobatics as one. Although not completely understood, it’s generally accepted that flocking birds benefit through cooperating with food hunting, that they exchange information and have greater protection from predators as a group. Read More

Australia is often referred to as the land of parrots. We have more than 56 species of parrots, from the smallest, the double-eyed fig parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma), to the largest, the palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus).  Read More

Many Aboriginal creation stories across Australia will tell you that birds are connected to the spreading of fire. Often cheeky birds would steal fire and accidentally drop it as they fled, inadvertently gifting it to everyone.  Read More

Commonly known as the budgie, the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) is a small seed-eating parrot endemic to Australia. They are around 18cm long and are green and yellow to blend in with the arid regions of Australia.  Read More

Bill Gammage describes galahs (Eolophus roseicapilla) as the ‘great adaptors’, showing through his work that galahs have capitalised on the pastoralisation of Australia. Read More

Have you ever experienced an artwork in virtual reality? We're excited to share our first project available in VR: Anri Sala's The Last Resort. Read More

How can we support visual arts education, inside and out of the classroom? Kaldor Public Art Projects has been working closely with the NSW Department of Education to explore this question and to keep improving our school programs and resources.  Read More

Many names for Australia’s birds are in fact Aboriginal names for birds. For instance, when you say galah (Eolophus roseicapilla), you are using a Wiradjuri word spelt gilaa. Read More

It’s important to know the difference between a native noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala) and the introduced common myna (Acridotheres tristis).  Read More

The Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) is named for its extraordinary ability to mimic sounds. From the calls of other birds to motorbikes and chainsaws, they create songs that reflect their local environment. Songs are vitally important to the lyrebird, so much so that they start singing while still in the egg.  Read More

In Sydney Harbour a number of fairy or little penguin (Eudyptula minor) colonies are still holding on. They are the smallest penguin species in the world, reaching about 30cm in height. Several protected fairy penguin rockeries are dotted around the harbour. Read More

Flying in between the skyscrapers of the Sydney CBD is the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus). Known to be living within our cityscape, they often feed on feral pigeons (Columba livia domestica).  Read More

Like many other migratory animals, we still don’t know how birds navigate during their long migrations.
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In Australia we have a number of introduced bird species, including feral pigeons (Columba livia domestica), the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) and the common myna (Acridotheres tristis), sometimes called the Indian myna. Many of these introduced birds compete not just with native birds but with all native animals, creating a number of problems.  Read More

Over the coming weeks artist Jonathan Jones will be writing a series of guest posts on all things native Australian birds, touching on their importance, the issues they face and what we can learn from them. Jones' upcoming artwork for the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art requires thousands of native Australian bird feathers, which he needs your help to find. Read More

Anri Sala's The Last Resort has journeyed through wind and waves to reach Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, where it is now on display alongside Sala's latest works of video and sculpture. Read More

Kaldor Public Art Projects is offering an internship position with our Artistic Programs team to support research and planning for the 50th anniversary of Kaldor Public Art Projects in 2019.  Read More

A NEW PROJECT BY JONATHAN JONES  Read More

Catch up on the full program of talks, panel discussions and performances that took place during Kaldor Public Art Project 33: Anri Sala, The Last Resort with all videos now available to watch online. Read More

Having wrapped Kaldor Public Art Project 33: Anri Sala, The Last Resort, we look back and reflect on how this installation for Sydney fits within the broader picture of Sala’s practice. Read More

For the past ten years, Anri Sala has been working with sculptural installations that include drums: single drums alongside video installations or configurations of several drums overlaid with sound. Hung upside down or laid on their side, Sala’s drums take on a peculiar anthropomorphic quality. They appear to play themselves or, to be more precise, the music plays them: their sticks move in response to vibrations emanating from speakers hidden within. Read More

This week we take a look back at one of Anri Sala’s earliest works, a video titled Intervista (Finding the Words), 1998, which Sala developed as an art student in Paris. Read More

This year all eyes are on Athens in the wake of Documenta14, a five yearly exhibition of contemporary art that this year made its debut in Greece. Lately associated with Europe's financial crisis, Greece has emerged as a hub of creative activity and progressive thought: fertile ground for artists to interrogate and discuss Europe's social and political future. Read More

As Kaldor Public Art Project 33 approaches, we’ll be spending the coming weeks sharing insights into Anri Sala’s fascinating practice and past artworks. Read More

The installation of Jonathan Jones' barrangal dyara (skin and bones) is nearing completion on site at The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Read More

Jonathan Jones' barrangal dyara (skin and bones)
17 September – 3 October 2016  Read More