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NGV Magazine

NGV Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine featuring writing from NGV and around the world that considers the many ways and reasons that we create, design, speculate and investigate. Learn how artists and designers make things, sink deep into the lives, challenges and achievements of creative people throughout history, and consider the world anew through the many ideas and perspectives explored through art and design.

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Issue 61 Nov–Dec 2026

In the final issue of NGV Magazine for 2026, we feature leading Melbourne-based South Sudanese artist Atong Atem, as part of her major solo exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Passage: The Art of Atong Atem. We also share a preview of the fourth NGV Triennial exhibition at NGV International and celebrate recent diverse acquisitions including French artist Paul Jacoulet’s woodblocks created in the 1940s, Australian tonalist painter Clarice Beckett’s Evening, Church Street Bridge, c. 1930, and Salvador Dalí’s Venus de Milo with drawers c. 1936.

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Features in this issue

COVER STORY Passage: The Art of Atong Atem

‘Atem’s photographs occupy a space between what we recognise and what we can imagine. Her work combines the intimate and the immense, the ancestral and the celestial.’

Words by Anna Honan and Natasha Bullock

NGV TRIENNIAL 2026 Pamela Rosenkranz: Gritty in Pink

‘The translucent layers of pink evoke tissue, circulation, warmth, something alive, a pulsating surface. And yet the sculpture doesn’t move, doesn’t warm, doesn’t pulse.’

Donna McColm interviews Pamela Rosenkranz

COLLECTION STORIES "The whole world is Angelicamad''

‘Instead of gazing out at the viewer, in the traditional manner of formal portraits, the sitter here looks away to something unseen in her middle distance, one hand resting with arachnid-like precision on the stone bench upon which she is seated, the other resting lightly on her left knee.’

Words by Dr Ted Gott

2026 MECCA x NGV HOLIDAY COLLABORATION Tai's Tearoom

‘For Snaith, weeds have become a means thorugh which to understand herself as an artist and she extends this into an analogy about the women artists who were never acknowledged in their lifetimes but have since become household names.’

Words by Amita Kirpalani

COLLECTION STORIES Akira Isogawa

‘In donating works to the NGV, Isogawa hopes that future generations might study them within a context that values the role of design in contemporary society.’

Words by Danielle Whitfield

MARGARET PRESTON The Language of Flowers

‘Preston herself described pulling flowers apart to understand how they were formed, making destructive studies before returning to intact specimens to draw.’

Words by Dr Alastair Robinson