Australian premiere LIDO: THU 19 & SAT 21 MAR, 7PM CLASSIC: SUN 15 MAR, 4PM & WED 18 MAR, 7PM A portrait of the Earth at seven locations that humans…
Public Records is a discussion on the processes and politics of documenting Artist-Run activity in Australia.
During his visit to Melbourne in 1984, Keith Haring undertook a series of public works including a now-iconic mural in Collingwood.
8 March 2019 – 13 April 2020 | NGV International | FREE entry Venetian glass is famous throughout the world for its vibrant colour and crystalline clarity, elaborate design and…
The past forty years in China have seen a significant amount of social, political and cultural change, and we are now living in what has come to be described as…
In his 1954 autobiography Leda and the Goose, Tristram Hillier was to recall how in 1931, during a hiking trip with friends across the Pyrenees, he had his ‘first glimpse of Spain which seemed to me like a return to China … No grass, no trees, but only rock and tawny earth that stretched away to the shimmering horizon like a lion’s pelt ’. He especially loved the translucent light found in the country’s south, which he felt was invested with ‘a dramatic quality, both noble and cruel’. His Spanish landscapes, like Andalusian farm, 1949, are charged with electric energy and poised in breathless and eer
In 2017, when Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin-based Grafton Architects were announced as Artistic Directors of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, they released a curatorial statement…
In the fifteenth century, on the Venetian island of Murano, a revolution in the manufacture of European glass was unfolding.
EXHIBITION TIMES: 8 MAR 19 – 13 APR 20, 10AM–5PM DAILY Venetian glass became famous throughout the Mediterranean world from the thirteenth century onwards for its remarkable colour and clarity, elaborate…
In 2015 the National Gallery of Victoria was fortunate to acquire from a private donor a painting by the distinguished British artist George Frederic Watts (1817–1904
In 1877 an engaging portrait drawing of a child by William Dyce (fig. 1) was given to the National Gallery of Victoria by a little-known collector, Duncan Elphinstone Cooper.
Venetian glass became famous throughout the Mediterranean world from the thirteenth century onwards for its remarkable colour and clarity, elaborate design and skilful manufacture.
This exhibition of 130 important pieces of Japanese Imari porcelain at the NGV has been enabled by a generous donation from Mrs Pauline Gandel, an enthusiastic benefactor of the NGV…
31 August 2018 – 28 January 2019 | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square | Admission fees apply George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley were born in the…
Sydney based architecture firms, Retallack Thompson and Other Architects designed Garden wall, 2017, as a collaborative project.