Archibald Prize news at Art News Blog is a listing of all the posts that have discussed the Archibald Prize in Sydney, Australia. The Archibald is an annual art prize for portrait painting held at the Art Gallery of NSW.

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• Archibald Prize Winner for 2007 - John Beard has won the Archibald Prize in Sydney. My prediction was wrong, so I'm glad I'm not a gambling man. The subject of the portrait is the installation artist Janet Laurence.
• Archibald Packing Room Prize Winner - Australia's most talked about art prize will soon (March 2) announce the winner for 2007. They have already announced what is called the "Packing Room Prize", which is where the gallery staff that install the exhibition get to vote for a winner.
• Archibald Prize Winner 2006 - The winner of the Archibald Prize for 2006 was announced today at the Art Gallery of NSW, Australia. Marcus Wills has won it with his unusual "The Paul Juraszek monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts)" painting.
• Archibald Prize Winner 2005 - John Olsen has won the Archibald Prize for portraiture in Sydney, Australia this year. The artist had criticized the Archibald previously, calling it a chook raffle.
  
• The Archibald Prize - Entries close today for the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney Australia. Artists have been marching in all this week with their chook raffle entries under their arm, hoping that the art gods will shine down on them with a $35,000 first prize and plenty of media attention.