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Summer's blockbuster art – in pictures

DC Anish Kapoor Memory
Anish Kapoor, Memory, 2008, installation view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2012. Photograph: Alex Davies/Museum of Contemporary Art
DC America: painting a nation
America: painting a nation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2013.
Photograph: Art Gallery of New South Wales/Supplied
DC Annie Leibovitz Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson, Los Angeles, 2009, installation view in Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990–2005 at Museum of Contemporary Art in 2010. Photograph: Museum of Contemporary Art/Supplied
Francis Bacon
Installation view of Francis Bacon, Five Decades at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2012
Photograph: Jenni Carter/Art Gallery of NSW
DC Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Pulse Room
Pulse Room, 2006, installation view in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders at Museum of Contemporary Art in 2012. Photograph: Alex Davies/Museum of Contemporary Art
DC First Emperor army
An underground army created to protect the tomb of the first Emperor of China, Qin Shihuang (259–210 BCE) in the First Emperor - China’s entombed warriors at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2010.
Photograph: Art Gallery of New South Wales/Supplied
DC Yoko Ono Play it By Trust
Play it By Trust 1966/2013, installation view in War Is Over! (if you want it): Yoko Ono at Museum of Contemporary Art in 2013. Photograph: Alex Davies/Museum of Contemporary Art
DC Picasso banner
Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2011.
Photograph: Art Gallery of New South Wales/Supplied
DC Rafael Lozano-Hemmer People on People
People on People, 2010, installation view in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders at Museum of Contemporary Art in 2012. Photograph: Alex Davies/Museum of Contemporary Art
DC America installation view
Installation view of America: painting a nation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2013.
Photograph: Art Gallery of New South Wales/Supplied
DC Anish Kapoor Sky Mirror
Anish Kapoor, Sky Mirror, 2006, installation view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2012. Photograph: Alex Davies/Museum of Contemporary Art
Picasso installation view
Installation view of Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2011.
Photograph: Art Gallery of New South Wales/Supplied
DC Annie Leibovitz Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt, Las Vegas, 1994, installation view in Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990–2005 at Museum of Contemporary Art in 2010. Photograph: Museum of Contemporary Art/Supplied
DC Picasso with people
Installation view of Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2011.
Photograph: Art Gallery of New South Wales/Supplied
DC Yoko Ono Wish Tree
Wish Tree for Sydney 2013, installation view in War Is Over! (if you want it): Yoko Ono at Museum of Contemporary Art in 2013. Photograph: Alex Davies/Museum of Contemporary Art
DC First Emperor outside
First Emperor - China’s entombed warriors at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2010.
Photograph: Art Gallery of New South Wales/Supplied
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