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The creative union of father and son Robert and Andrew Klippel will be explored in a ground-breaking exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on 7 August.
A fresh take on the NGV’s extensive holdings of contemporary art will be brought together in a new exhibition opening 17 July 2008. Look! New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection will be the first NGV exhibition curated by Dr Alex Baker, the recently appointed Senior Curator of Contemporary Art.
Art Deco 1910–1939 is the fifth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and captures the spirit of the Art Deco period by combining important masterworks from the V&A’s acclaimed collection with public and private works from around the world.
The work of some of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century will be brought together in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria opening on 2 May.
A new exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on 11 April will explore Zen philosophy through the work of local Melbourne artist Kim Hoa Tram.
![Otto Dix German 1891–1969 Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor [Stormtroops advancing under a gas attack] 1924 etching, aquatint 19.6 x 29.1 cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra The Poynton Bequest 2003 © Otto Dix/Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia](/media/static/uploads/thumbnail/EXHI005383.jpg)
“I did not paint war pictures in order to prevent war. I would never have been so arrogant. I painted them to exorcise the experience of war. All art is about exorcism.”
-Otto Dix
A new exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Victoria will celebrate the legacy of Hugh Williamson, one of the Gallery’s most important benefactors.
Throughout history, the colour black has been associated at various times with death, power, elegance, urbanity, subversion and sex appeal. An upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria will explore the evolution of black in fashion from the extravagance of the seventeenth century through to the groundbreaking designs of the present.
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