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The NGV announced today that it believes the subject of a mysterious Renaissance portrait it has owned since 1965 is Lucrezia Borgia, and that the painter is famed Renaissance artist Dosso Dossi (c1486-1542).
For the first time in Australia, an exhibition by German contemporary photographer Andreas Gursky will open at the National Gallery of Victoria on 21 November 2008.
To mark Remembrance Day on 11 November and the 90th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War, the National Gallery of Victoria will open a newly hung gallery on Level 2 of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. The new display will include art works that document the Australian experience in the First World War.
This December the National Gallery of Victoria will present a major retrospective of the work of one of Australia’s most accomplished artists, Rosalie Gascoigne (1917-1999).
The enduring connection between archives and photography will be explored in a fascinating exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on 18 October.
A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria will take a fun look at the use of animals in Asian art. Opening on 17 October, The cricket and the dragon: Animals in Asian Art explores the representation of animals across the NGV’s permanent Asian Collection.
This October, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Across the Desert: Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia, a fascinating exhibition on the evolution of batik production in Indigenous communities.
In just a matter of days, Art Deco treasures from across the globe that have called the National Gallery of Victoria home this winter must leave Melbourne.
A major exhibition featuring the work of renowned Australian photographer Rennie Ellis (1940-2003) will open at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia on 31 October 2008.
No standing only dancing: Photographs by Rennie Ellis will explore Ellis’s remarkable vision of the world through candid documentary images of contemporary Australian society.
A fascinating new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria will explore how contemporary fashion has adopted a new aesthetic, where elements of dressmaking have become design components of the finished product.
Making a mark: prints and drawings gifted by Ian Brown will survey the significant collection of one of the National Gallery of Victoria’s most generous benefactors, the Reverend Ian Brown.
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 Goldman Sachs JBWere People's Choice Awards
Announcement of finalists
Bill Henson is one of Australia’s leading artists, and is one of only a handful of Australian artists who is known and collected internationally.
Premier John Brumby today launched the National Gallery of Victoria’s fundraising appeal, Masterpieces for Melbourne, which seeks to raise $150 million by the gallery’s 150th birthday in 2011.
The National Gallery of Victoria announced this morning that it has welcomed its 10 millionth visitor since its two phase refurbishment in 2002–03. The 10 millionth visitor, Georgia Griffiths from Fulham, London, was presented with a Sidney Nolan catalogue and gifts from the NGV Shop by Deputy Director, Frances Lindsay at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.
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.
![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 on 11 April will explore Zen philosophy through the work of local Melbourne artist Kim Hoa Tram.
National Gallery of Victoria Director Gerard Vaughan unveiled recent acquisitions and major loans on Friday 7 March, at the same time appealing for funding support from the community to help the Gallery secure two major new works.
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.
The artistic achievements of VCE Art and Studio Arts students will be showcased at the National Gallery of Victoria for the fourteenth year. Top Arts: VCE 2007 will be on show at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia profiling the art and innovation of young Victorians.
The National Gallery of Victoria last night announced that one of Australia’s top art prizes has been awarded to Gareth Sansom.
The National Gallery of Victoria today announced major supporter donations of almost $10 million for its new Asian Art Acquisition Fund.
“The body is the only direct way through which I know society and society comes to know me. The body is proof of identity. The body is language.” Zhang Huan 1999
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.
Not since Sidney Nolan’s death in 1992 has there been a major retrospective. Now, through the careful selection of Nolan’s potent masterpieces, the National Gallery of Victoria will present the most important survey of the artist’s career when Sidney Nolan opens at the end of February 2008.
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