A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition 7 July – 29 August 2010 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 15 October – 28 November 2010 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery 15 January…

This exhibition features more than 80 Impressionist and modern masterpieces from the celebrated Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection of the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. Artists represented include Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Monet, Rousseau, Modigliani, Derain, Laurencin, Utrillo, Soutine and Picass

Charles Conder was one of the key founders of the Heidelberg school of Australian Impressionism. This exhibition traces his career in Australia and Europe and features his Australian, French and English plein air landscapes, portraits and lithographs, as well as his ornamental paintings on silk.

Celebrating fashionable life in Melbourne during the 1950s, this exhibition examines the influences and inspiration behind fashion from this popular decade. Key Australian designers and labels are showcased from the NGV’s Collection, including Le Louvre, Hall Ludlow, Linda Suchestow, La Petite, Georges and Luca

Drawn from the NGV Collection, this exhibition highlights French photographers’ contribution to the medium, providing a fascinating glimpse into a city in love (and occasionally at war) with itself. Two periods are profiled: photography from the 1850s –1900s and the development of human interest photography in the 1920s and 19

William Kentridge is internationally renowned for his animated short films, and for the charcoal drawings he makes in producing them. 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès is a meditation on the life of the artist and as a suite of films it encapsulates Kentridge’s practice: drawing, performance, sculpture, animation and f

This exhibition retraces the dynamic changes in fashion during Jane Austen’s lifetime. Featuring more than 70 works, with most from the NGV Collection, Persuasion surveys the period 1770-1830 and includes fashion, prints and drawings, decorative arts and paintings, with a focus on English women’s dress from the early 19th cent

Coinciding with the International Year of Astronomy, Shared Sky explores the cultural experience of the night sky over our southern continent. From Warmun in Western Australia to Melbourne in Victoria, artists of different cultural backgrounds and locales explore humanity’s enduring psychological engagement with the southern stars over the centuries.

Part of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, this exhibition presents masterpieces from the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, one of the finest collections in Europe. Alongside paintings and sculpture by German artists are works by the greatest French, Belgian, Dutch and Swiss masters of the time

Stick it! looks at Australian artists’ use of collage (from the French word coller, to paste or glue) over the last 70 years both as a final product and as a step in their creative practice. It is the first exhibition at the NGV to focus on this art for

The NGV’s Prints and Drawings Collection encompasses Australian and international works on paper, and spans some seven hundred years, from the 15th to the 21st centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of acquisitions made for this collection since 2002 to showcase the extraordinary range of material acquired and reveal collecting direction