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Australian idyll: domesticating the Victorian landscape
In 1957 a photo-essay by Jeff Carter in People magazine represented seasonal hop-picking in the Ovens Valley in north–eastern Victoria in pastoral terms (fig.
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A human, democratic art: three realist artists 1944–1947
In 1944 the three Melbourne realist artists, Noel Counihan (1919–1986), Yosl Bergner (1920–) and Vic O’Connor (1918–) wrote, ‘We in fact work together as a group&
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Obituary: Ursula Hoff, AO, OBE 1909–2005
With the death of Dr Ursula Hoff in Melbourne on 10 January 2005, the National Gallery of Victoria has lost the person who, more than any other individual, shaped its…
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Charles Blackman’s Feet beneath the table
Charles Blackman is renowned for his images that explore the duality of life: innocence and experience, fantasy and fact, dreams and nightmares, beauty and savagery
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Top Arts 2014
The dream started on the way to an annual Top Arts tour in 2013. “I’ll be in the exhibition next year guys, it’ll be a life-sized lino
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Louise Bourgeois Cell (Glass spheres and hands) (1990-1993)
Identity, self-scrutiny, memory and the tensions inherent in human relationships are the core themes of Louise Bourgeois’s ar
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Phantasy and Myth, Parmigianino’s Huntsman drawing
In his 1953 publication on the drawings of Parmigianino (Girolamo Maria Francesco Mazzola) (1503–1540), A.
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A Symbolic Centenary Sculpture
Few acquisitions by the Felton Bequest have offered such drama, such expectancy and such a direct tribute to Alfred Felton
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To see a world in a grain of sand: a closer look at the ‘Melbourne Blakes’
Nature had not only painted there in all her hues But there the sweetness of a thousand scents Was blended in one fragrance strange and new.
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This year marks the centenary of the death of Alfred Felton, the great Melbourne philanthropist whose benefaction to the National Gallery of Victoria, bequeathed in his will, has defined the…
Edition 44
This year marks the centenary of the death of Alfred Felton, the great Melbourne philanthropist whose benefaction to the National Gallery of Victoria, bequeathed in his will, has defined the…
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Sue Ford
The ground-breaking work of Australian photographer and filmmaker Sue Ford will be explored in a major retrospective opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on 17 April.
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NGV announces The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
“ I am honoured and flattered that my exhibition will travel to Australia and I am thrilled to be returning to a country that I have visited only once, many…
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A Knight in Shining Armour, a Virgin – Uccello’s Melbourne Saint George and the dragon and Oxford Annunciation
Paintings by famous early Renaissance artists are rare in Australian collections, so the realisation that the Saint George and the dragon, c.1430 (fig.
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A Life Revealed: Emil Todt, a German sculptor in nineteenth-century Melbourne
Emil Todt, the German sculptor whose plaster figure group The gold diggers (fig.
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Obituary: Dr Eric Westbrook, CB 1915–2005
Eric Westbrook was born in London on 29 September in 1915.