One of a series of essays featuring the answers to questions posed to artists participating in the Megacities project of NGV Triennial 2023 In this third decade of the twenty-first…
Presented as part of the 2023 NGV Triennial, Megacities is an NGV-commissioned presentation that invited ten leading photographers to capture the urban environment of ten global megacities – cities with…
STATEMENT ‘My relationship with Cairo is a very emotional and complex one. I love Cairo very much, with all its madness and absurdity; I can’t imagine myself living anywhere elseR
The story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, from the first century BC, was a popular subject for artists in the eighteenth cent
There’s a rare kind of magic in how Kaylene Whiskey’s art practice brings joy to so m
The internationally exclusive blockbuster exhibition, Pharaoh, celebrates three thousand years of ancient Egyptian art and culture through more than 500 works on loan from the British Museum, including monumental sculpture,…
1981 was quite a year. In the US, Ronald Reagan was sworn into office, and MTV went on the air. Britain thrilled to the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana….
PROJECT In this installation Ezz Monem explores the tension between reverence and the profane by recontextualising references to the name ‘Mohamed’ from Egyptian and broader Middle Eastern cinema.
PROJECT Heather B. Swann’s Ouroboros is a three metre-wide sculpture, which has been meticulously carved and moulded by the artist in her Tasmanian studi
Themes主题 Events活动 Learn学习 Watch & read观看和阅读 Access无障碍参观 Shop购物 FAQs常见问题 Partners合作伙伴 MELBOURNE WINTER MASTERPIECES® 2024 2024年墨尔本冬季大师杰作展(Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® The NGV has partnered with the British Museum to present Pharaoh, a landmark…
In 2021 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a pertinent mixed-media work by Gippsland-based artist Paul Yore.
In 1999, J. G. P. Delaney’s biography of Glyn Philpot used the ‘H’ word for the first time in writings on this prominent British portraitist, and religious and genre painter
Sitting quietly on display in the Ancient Worlds Gallery on Level 2 is an exceptionally rare sculpture of the famous ancient Egyptian queen, Queen Nefertiti, principal wife of King Akhenaten….
With a repertoire curated in response to The Picasso Century, musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) perform a concert under the iconic stained-glass ceiling of the Great Hall inspired…
Levels 5 – 8 What was life like for people thousands of years ago? How can we use primary sources to investigate their experiences? Travel thousands of years back in…