Famous Viennese and French artworks rarely seen outside Europe are coming to Melbourne in 2011 and 2012.

In just over three weeks, this year’s exceptionally popular Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, European Masters: Städel Museum 19th – 20th Century will leave Melbo

Be seduced by femmes fatales, goddesses and temptresses of history and legend at the NGV this summer in Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine, the first significant exhibition of Gustave…

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

One of the world’s finest collections of 19th and 20th century art will come exclusively to Melbourne this June as the seventh exhibition in the hugely popular Melbourne Winter Masterpieces…

On 26thMarch 2010, the National Gallery of Victoria will open a major retrospective exhibition of the work of Rupert Bunny (1864–1947

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