When the director of AGNSW, Michael Brand, first announced Sydney Modern in 2013, his vision was to transform the gallery into “a truly great art museum ... in a repurposed concrete reservoir.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales now has two buildings, not one. Sydney Modern, as the new structure is provisionally called (it opened late last year), is right beside the old museum ...

In Sydney, a city of icons so photogenic even an average photographer can snap a decent image, the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s new space, the Tank, is an icon of a different kind, as ...

Brand, an Australian art historian who previously served as director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, calls the complex, with its new building, “a continuation of Sydney.” ...

but gives pride of place to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. The work of ­Indig­enous artists is displayed throughout the museum, and also in a dedicated space named Yiribana (“this way” in ...