NGV Magazine

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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Latest issue

Issue 59 Jul–Aug 2026

In this issue of NGV Magazine, we cover in depth CARTIER, the 2026 NGV Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition, created by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London in partnership with the NGV and together with the generous support of Cartier. We also feature stories on new acquisitions by Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni and Fred Williams and introduce a free new exhibition, Bearing Witness: Contemporary Asian art from the NGV Collection, featuring works by contemporary artists across Asia.

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Features in this issue

COVER STORY CARTIER

‘The exhibition at the NGV is the perfect occasion to share these unique collections, precious jewels and archival documents with the public.’

Elisha Buttler interviews Pierre Rainero Cartier Director of Image, Style and Heritage

EXHIBITION CARTIER: Designed by Sabine Marcelis and CLOUD

‘As she explains, the exhibition is designed “to tell the many stories of Cartier, as well as the individual histories of the jewels and their wearers”, with colour and material in each space shaping how those stories are experienced.’

By Gemma Savio

AT NGV AUSTRALIA Fred Williams: 'My Best Painting'

‘As he reviewed his work, he thought that this picture showed his strengths as an artist, that you didn’t need to see a picturesque scene of the local landscape. He wanted it to be the essence of the bush and what he thought was so Australian about it.’

Beckett Rozentals interviews Lyn Williams AC

AT NGV INTERNATIONAL Bearing Witness: Contemporary Asian Art from the NGV Collection

‘These works highlight how individuals negotiate the systems that seek to define, rename or erase them, and how art is used as both a record and resistance.’

By Natasha Bullock

COLLECTION STORIES Giraru galing ganhagirri (The wind will bring rain)

‘It was joyous to be reminded that we as Wiradjuri people still hold Country, and our knowledge of it, and the ancient wisdom coded into it through our songlines.’

By Joel Bray

CONSERVATION The true Story of The finding of Moses

The finding of Moses, however, is an entirely different type of work because it deliberately mimics Veronese’s style so closely that, in Morassi’s words, it ‘should almost have been confused with a work by Veronese’.’

By Carl Villis