he Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), with its distinctive 19th-century colonnaded facade, has undergone several renovations over the past half-century. Now, the doors are opening to Sydney Modern, where this historic building will sit among an expanded art museum campus filled with galleries, libraries and archives. But the centre point of the Sydney Modern project is a new adjacent building—it almost doubles the gallery’s total exhibition space, with original commissions from local artists to international creators. Like when the Queensland Art Gallery added the Gallery of Modern Art in 2006, this new $344 million
