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‘Rich, effective pictorial pageantry’: Augustus John’s Rt. Hon. Harold Chaloner Dowdall, Lord Mayor of Liverpool and his sword-bearer, 1909
In mid May 1938 the then director of the National Gallery of Victoria, J. S. MacDonald, wrote disparagingly of the striking 1909 portrait Rt. Hon.
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Ai Weiwei Letgo room
Letgo room, 2015, is a major site-specific installation by leading Chinese artist, activist and public intellectual Ai Weiwei.
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Alexander Calder
Radical Inventor
Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor presents approximately one hundred sculptural and pictorial compositions made by renowned American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976), drawn from private and museum collections in North America, including…
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Hans and Nora Heysen
Two Generations of Australian Art
Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art brings together the work of Hans and Nora Heysen, father and daughter artists whose work spanned more than a century during…
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Julian Opie: Studio for Kids
NGV International | 9 November 2018 – 17 February 2019 | FREE In his first exhibition for children, British artist Julian Opie has collaborated with the National Gallery of Victoria…
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Modern Australian Women: Works from a Private Collection
The turn of the twentieth century was a crucial time for women artists in Australia.
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Interview with Polly Borland
Polly Borland: Polyverse presents new and recent work by the celebrated Australian-born, Los Angeles–based artis
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Julian Opie
NGV International | 9 November 2018 – 17 February 2019 | FREE ENTRY From a shoal of virtual carp swimming in the NGV’s waterwall to a towering metropolis in Federation…
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MoMA at NGV Teens Art Party
Saturday 22 September, 6-9pm | NGV International | Ticketed 22 September 2018: Teens will get up close and personal with artworks by Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Camille Henrot and Vincent…
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Julian Opie: Studio for Kids 2018
Julian Opie is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists and has been making portraits since the 1990
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Polly Borland: Polyverse
28 September 2018 – 3 February 2019 | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square | FREE The National Gallery of Victoria will present an exhibition of new…
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Amedeo Modigliani
Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert
During a six-month conservation process, one of the great masterpieces of our 20th century Collection, Amedeo Modigliani’s Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert 1916, has been restored to its original…
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Collection Appeal – Part three | Salvador Dalí’s Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946
In this third and final chapter on Salvador Dalí, his life and the painting Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946, NGV Senior Fundraising Officer, Caroline Buckley, explores Dalí’s influence and…
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Julian Opie
The NGV presents the work of Julian Opie, one of Britain’s most influential living artist
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Visions of Paradise
Indian Court Paintings
Visions of Paradise presents the NGV’s internationally important holdings of Indian court paintings and takes exhibition visitors on a journey to the opulent palaces, sumptuous lifestyles and cultural activities of…