The sixth exhibition in the NGV’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire brings together more than 200 stunning works by Salvador Dalí in all media including painting, drawing, watercolour, etchings, sculpture, fashion, jewellery, cinema and photogra

This exhibition offers audiences the richest survey of 17th century Dutch art ever staged in Australia. The exhibition brings together more than 100 works and decorative objects by great artists such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch and Jan Steen.

This exhibition explores the diversity and continuity of drawing practice from the 15th century until the present day. It traces the different ways drawing has been used by painters, sculptors and designers and highlights both formal and conceptual connections between drawing practices across time.

Australian Impressionism seeks to redefine and introduce this important movement in Australian art history to a new generation. More than 240 works are included, from famous iconic images to the lesser-known, with a focus on five major Impressionist artists: Charles Conder, Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, and Jane Sutherland.

Drawn from one of the finest corporate art collections in the world, this exhibition presents work by leading international artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Andreas Gursky, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman.

Portrait photography is a complex area of photographic practice that involves a dynamic process of collaboration between the sitter, viewer and camera operator. This exhibition creates a provocative interchange between historical and contemporary photography to suggest how photographers work to construct, question or reflect the notion of ‘role playing

The definition of lace is a decorative or openwork fabric made up of spaces and worked areas formed by fine threads. Still present in contemporary life from fashion to homewares, lace first originated in sixteenth century Europe. It began with the development of two distinct types of work – needle lace and bobbin lace. These two techniques, relying on fine handwork for the first three centuries, produced some of the most luxurious and coveted forms of textiles ever create

In May 2004 Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE donated the major part of his incomparable collection of Australian art to the National Gallery of Victoria — the most generous single gift of works of art ever made to a public gallery in Australia.

The Joseph Brown Collection at NGV Australia will forever tell the story of the immigrant who became an artist and soldier, a scholar and connoisseur, a successful businessman and an art dealer, a mentor to artists and an art patron; a man who made a huge and enduring difference to the culture of this countr