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An exhibition highlighting the work of the Paris-based fashion designer will be on display in the Myer Fashion and Textiles Gallery at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 9 December 2005 until 7 May 2006.
An exhibition that captures the powerful and conflicting emotions of emigration during the Victorian era opens at NGV Australia this December.
DRAWN from the collection explores the diversity and continuity of the drawing practice from the fifteenth century until the present day.
The first comprehensive survey of acclaimed Australian potter, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, includes works that represent each distinct phase in the development of the artist’s long career.
In the first major retrospective of Margaret Preston’s work, more than 100 of her commanding compositions have been brought together with her prints, pottery, textiles, photographs and documents.
BritPrint brings together a collection of recent prints by some of the most acclaimed artists working in Britain over the past two decades, all drawn from the NGV’s permanent collection.
Swinging Sixties revealed in a new exhibition from Tate Britain
This & Other Worlds brings together a selection of contemporary drawings made by Australian artists during the past ten years.
The most comprehensive display of 17th century Dutch masterpieces is on its way to Melbourne for the second exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series.
This exhibition explores the ways that artists have used the camera to describe, celebrate and mythologise the naked body through a range of photographs, all drawn from the NGV’s permanent collection.
More than 100 works by secondary school students from throughout Victoria will be exhibited at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square from Friday 1 April.
More than 100 Japanese woodblocks will be on display together for the first time ever in the exhibition, Pictures of the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Collection.
More than 350 photographs dating back to 1974 have been brought together to celebrate the career and contribution of one of Australia’s foremost artists, Bill Henson.
Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules reveals the private life of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century, through the everyday material, which he stored in uniform cardboard boxes.
Works have been drawn from the NGV’s collection, and they represent a time when ready-to-wear garments replaced custom-made, and swinging urban boutiques competed with intimate, exclusive salons.
The first of its kind in Australia, this exhibition explores a remarkable period in photography when Western and Japanese photographers followed the conventions and subject matter of the famed ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and includes portraits of courtesans, actors and samurai along with daily life in Japan.
Ron Mueck’s imposing 2.5 metres high Pregnant woman 2002 will be at the National Gallery of Victoria from 29 January for a month.