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Pioneering Women
In 1938 Nora Heysen became the first woman to win the Archibald Portrait Prize and in 1943 was appointed the first Australian female war artist.
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Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor
NGV International | 5 April 2019 – 4 August 2019 | Admission fees apply Known as the man who made sculpture move, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was one of the most…
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Book Launch: ‘Ha Ha World’ by Regan Tamanui
‘Ha Ha World’ is a limited edition handmade artist book by Regan Tamanui, featuring 12 stencil portraits and 12 screen printed images, each of mathematical data reflecting a portrait of…
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Panel Discussion: Expanding the Perceptual Space of Publication
Photographer Kate Disher-Quill, artist Fayen d’Evie, and Luke King will will read and perform excerpts from new projects that challenge art publishing to become more ambitious and innovative in perceptual…
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Magic tricks and a doggy treasure hunt at the annual NGV Kids Summer Festival 2019
5 – 13 January 2018 | NGV International and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | FREE Inspired by the NGV’s summer program, including Escher X nendo | Between Two…
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The Lashmar family, 1857–58: emigration, photography and family ties
When, in 2004, the National Gallery of Victoria purchased a mid nineteenth-century Australian family portrait taken by the South Australian photographer William Millington Nixon, the sitters’ names were unknow
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This edition of Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria presents seven papers originally delivered at the international conference ‘Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700–1914’…
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This edition of Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria presents seven papers originally delivered at the international conference ‘Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700–1914’…
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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…