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Modern Britain 1900-1960 draws together diverse works from the holdings of major public collections across Australia and New Zealand. This kaleidoscopic exhibition traces the development of British art and society across six decades of tremendous innovation and change.
A new retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria explores the practice of Melbourne-born Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931), one of Australia’s most important and internationally successful sculptors.
For the first time in two decades John Brack’s iconic Melbourne paintings, The bar and Collins St., 5p.m., will hang together at the National Gallery of Victoria. The works were unveiled today by Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV.
The National Gallery of Victoria today closed its doors on the most successful and highly attended exhibition of late modern and contemporary and art ever held in the Gallery’s history. Over 180,000 people attended the blockbuster exhibition Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, placing it in the top seven most attended exhibitions at the NGV.
LAST DAYS - LATE NIGHTS!
The National Gallery of Victoria will come alive at night for art after dark this week with live music, fine food and wine to celebrate the success of this year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now.
Known for his seductive charms, mischievous tricks and heroic demon slaying, Krishna is one of the most popular Hindu deities or gods who is worshipped throughout the world.
Opening on 6 October 2007, Krishna: Love and Devotion explores Krishna narrative and worship through various forms of paintings, textiles, jewellery, sculpture and photography.
For the first time in Australia, an important exhibition examining the connections between the art of Joseph Beuys and the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner will open at the National Gallery of Victoria this October.
Works by leading international contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst, Andreas Gursky, Sarah Morris, Ed Ruscha, Lucian Freud, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman will come together as part of An incomplete world, a thought-provoking exhibition opening at the NGV on 28 September 2007.
A new exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on 25 October will explore the notion of ‘role-playing’ in portrait photography. Role Play: Portrait Photography will bring together approximately 40 works from Italian, American, Welsh, French, Australian, and German photographers active from the early 19th to mid 20th century.
Opening on 13 September, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria will present the work of one of Australia’s most accomplished abstract artists, Yvonne Audette.
Opening on 6 September 2007 a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria will present a major survey of the work of contemporary Australian artist Gordon Bennett.
The exhibition will include painting, installation and video performance, bringing together many of the Notes to Basquiat paintings and selected works from the Home Décor series.
NGV Director Gerard Vaughan today announced findings from the Van Gogh Museum’s analysis of the NGV’s painting, Head of a man, traditionally given to Vincent van Gogh.
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam believes the painting is not by Vincent van Gogh. The Museum concludes that it is not a forgery, but rather is by an as yet unidentified contemporary of Van Gogh.
Revisit the sex, power and glamour of the 1980s when a new fashion exhibition opens at NGV International on 22 August 2007.
Super Bodies: Heroic Fashion from the 1980s pays tribute to the powerful and body conscious styles that dominated women’s fashion during the 80s.
A new shopping experience will be unveiled at the redeveloped National Gallery of Victoria Shop to coincide with NGV’s new blockbuster exhibition, Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, on 30 June.
The most important exhibition of postwar and contemporary art ever to be held in Australia is coming exclusively to Melbourne from the internationally renowned Guggenheim Museum. The fourth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series will bring masterworks from the 20th and 21st centuries to the National Gallery of Victoria.
Geoffrey Bartlett is one of Australia’s most visible artists whose distinctive works have been seen throughout the cities of Australia since the early 1980s. A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria will explore Bartlett’s practice and the pivotal influences throughout his career.
Katie Pye: Clothes for Modern Lovers, charts the innovative work of Australian fashion artist Katie Pye from 1977 through to 1990.
Great Exhibitions brings together artworks from London’s first world fair together with works from Europe, America and Australia, ending with the Paris exhibition of 1937. As well as works from the NGV’s collection, Great Exhibitions showcases pieces from an outstanding new gift to the Gallery by collector Dr Robert Wilson.
The National Gallery of Victoria today announced it has purchased Robert Dowling’s 1856 masterpiece, Masters George, William, and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware, prior to auction
This major retrospective showcases the work of one of Australia’s most remarkable Indigenous artists, celebrated for her innovation, unique style and mastery of a range of mediums, including carvings, bark baskets, prints and paintings.
From the eternal cities of Europe, to the mystical sites of the East and romantic images of Great Britain, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria invites the viewer to embark on a journey through popular tourist destinations of the nineteenth century.
Enter the fantasy world of imagined prisons and monumental architecture. On show in Australia for the first time, contemporary artist Vik Muniz’s large scale photographs are displayed alongside the works that inspired them: the NGV’s collection of prints by the great eighteenth-century print maker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778).
The most important exhibition of Australian Impressionist art to be held in decades is currently on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Australian Impressionism brings together approximately 250 stunning works covering the momentous period of 1883-1897, a time of peak creativity in the history of Australian art.
For twelve years, the National Gallery of Victoria has profiled the innovation and talent of Victoria’s young and upcoming visual artists. Now in its thirteenth year, Top Arts: VCE 2006 will feature more than 60 works by 51 secondary school students from government, Catholic and independent schools from across Victoria.
A beautiful selection of intricately hand painted ‘golden screens’ dating from the seventeenth to nineteenth century explores the aesthetic and stylistic aspects of the painting, structure and function of the Japanese free-standing folding screen (byobu) and the traditional Japanese house and garden.
Some of the most remarkable examples of Indian cinema art have arrived in Melbourne. From large-scale hoardings and over 100 posters to costumes and excerpts from key films, Cinema India charts the historical, political and cultural changes in India as seen through the eyes of the Bollywood film industry.
An exciting work by Danish contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson is coming to Melbourne for the first time and will transform the entrance space at the National Gallery of Victoria. The cubic structural evolution project 2004 is an interactive installation constructed from over 400,000 white Lego blocks.
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