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WHO ARE YOU
Curator Floor Talk: Self Portraiture
The first exhibition to comprehensively bring together the rich portrait holdings of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture reframes…
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Brook Andrew
Australian born 1970 S & D II 1997, printed 2006 computer-generated colour transparency on transparent synthetic polymer resin Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists 2007.
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Observations | Women in Art and Design History
Seminar 1 – A Studio of Her Own: 1500–1900A Studio of Her Own explores the period 1500–1900 and the women artists and designers who, despite the many obstacles to their independence, set up professional studios and made successful…
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Wednesday Work of the Week:
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Levels 3-8 Join an NGV Educator for a short and lively introduction to one work from the NGV Collection and exhibitions.
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17 December: Melbourne Design Week, Australia’s leading annual international design event, returns for its sixth edition from 17-27 March 2022, with a dynamic program that will transform Melbourne and parts…
MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK: 2022 PROGRAM FIRST LOOK
17 December: Melbourne Design Week, Australia’s leading annual international design event, returns for its sixth edition from 17-27 March 2022, with a dynamic program that will transform Melbourne and parts…
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NGV Kids on Tour 2022: 120+ regional and metropolitan galleries, libraries and community centres across Victoria to host FREE activities
Various locations and venues | January 2022 | FREE 15 December 2021: NGV Kids on Tour returns in 2022 to over 120 venues across regional and metropolitan Victoria to offer…
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The Gecko and the Mermaid: Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu and Her Sister
22 November 2021: NGV kids presents an all-ages exhibition, The Gecko and the Mermaid: Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu and Her Sister, which celebrates the vibrant culture and community of the Yolŋu people…
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Kai-awase: the shell-matching game
The origins of Kai-awase Kai-awase (貝合わせ), the game of ‘matching shells’, is included among a number of aristocratic pastimes belonging to the category monoawase (物合わせ), a ‘competitive comparison among things’…
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Conservation Secrets and Surprises: A 16th Century painting Transformed through Time
Watch the broadcast here Art, like life, is full of surprises.
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WHO ARE YOU
Australian Portraiture
WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is the first exhibition to comprehensively bring together the rich portrait holdings of both the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the National Portrait Gallery,…
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Online Course: Impressionism
This course commenced on 1 November. Enrolments have been extended to midnight on Sunday 14 November. Once enrolled you can start the course at any time.
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Lillie Williamson’s frames
A conservator’s insight
A painting’s frame is often an artwork itself. Lillie Williamson, born in Melbourne, was a celebrated frame-maker working in the early twentieth centur
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Goya’s Visions
The universality of Goya’s art lies in his pursuit of truth, making his observations of society and human nature as relevant today as they were in his own tim
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In her likeness: Recasting the stories of famous women in art
The historical portrayal of women in art often prioritised the artist’s role, usually a male, rather than the female subject’s lived experiences and accomplishme
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‘Who was this talented Maria Margaretha la Fargue?’
Dutch writer and curator Charles Dumas introduces us to a skilled young artist from a family of painters, who struggled to assert her identity in the male-dominated world of eighteenth-century…