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SIMRIT BRAR & GLAMOUR (designer)
Lagaan (Land tax / Once upon a time in India) 2001
coloured inks on vinyl
120.7 x 180.5 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum
Gift of Amir Khan Productions (IS.92–2001)
© V&A Images / Courtesy of and Amir Khan Productions
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New to the NGV this month
It’s a busy time at the NGV with three exciting new exhibitions opening in March.
Cinema India: The Art of Bollywood opens at NGV International on 9 March with a range of Bollywood inspired programs.
At The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, the ever popular Top Arts exhibition returns for another year from 16 March and the long awaited Australian Impressionism exhibition opens 31 March.
Cinema India: The Art of Bollywood
See India’s historical, political and cultural changes through the eyes of the Bollywood film industry when Cinema India presents some of the most remarkable examples of Indian cinema art.
Date 9 Mar – 20 May 2007
Cost $12 / $6 NGV Member / $8 Concession
Venue NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd
Web www.ngv.vic.gov.au/cinemaindia
Program highlights for Cinema India include:
- Free Hoarding Artist Demonstration
Sunday 4 Mar & Monday 5 Mar, 11am–4pm
- Introductory Talk with Divia Patel, Victoria and Albert Museum*
Friday 9 Mar, 12.30pm
- Free Indian Classical Dance Performance with Natyalayaa
Sunday 11 Mar, 2pm
- Armchair Travel Afternoon with Indian travel and culinary expert Andre Rasquinha*
Sunday 1 Apr, 2–4.30pm
- NGV Kids Cinema India School Holiday Workshops and Activities*
Thursday 12, Friday 13 & Saturday 14 Apr
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Tobias Koster
Alex from the market (detail)
St Leonard’s College, Brighton East
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Top Arts: VCE 2006
Now in its thirteenth year, Top Arts: VCE 2006 features 51 artists and more than 60 works by a range of secondary school students from government, Catholic and independent schools from across Victoria. Drawing on a range of experiences for inspiration, students have focused on themes as varied as relationships, identity, emotions, the urban landscape, and life pressures.
Date 16 Mar – 3 Jun 2007
Cost Free entry
Principal Sponsor Goldman Sachs JBWere
Venue The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square
Web www.ngv.vic.gov.au/toparts
Program highlights for Top Arts include:
- Floor Talk with Paula Lindley, Top Arts: VCE 2006 selection committee member
Sunday 25 Mar, 3.30pm
- Floor Talk with Top Arts participants
Sunday 1, 15 & 29 Apr, 3.30pm & 4pm
- NGV Kids Artcart: VCE 2006
Sunday 1, 15, 22, 29 Apr, Tuesday 3 – Thursday 5 Apr & Wednesday 11 Apr, 12noon – 3pm (excludes Sunday 8 Apr)
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Charles Conder
A holiday at Mentone 1888
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
South Australian Government grant with the assistance of Bond Corporation Holdings
Limited through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation, to mark the Gallery’s Centenary, 1981
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Coming Soon – Australian Impressionism
Australian Impressionism features the work of the five leading painters of the Impressionist movement in Australia, 1883–1897. The exhibition brings together over 240 famous and not so well–known works by Conder, McCubbin, Roberts, Streeton and Sutherland. Exclusive to Melbourne.
Date 31 Mar – 8 Jul 2007
Cost $12 / $6 NGV Member / $8 Concession
Principal Sponsor Australian International Cultural Foundation
Venue The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square
Web www.ngv.vic.gov.au/australianimpressionism
Program highlights for Australian Impressionism include:
- Symposium*
Saturday 31 Mar, 9.30am–5pm
- Family Morning*
Sunday 1 Apr, 9-11am
- Introductory Talks*
Every Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday, 11.15am (excludes Wed 25 Apr)
- Impressionism Breakfasts*
Saturday 21 Apr, 26 May & 16 Jun, and Sunday 29 Apr & 13 May, 8.15am
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March Public Programs not to be missed!
- Proof Artist Floor Talk
Wednesday 7 Mar, 12.30pm
- Edge of Reason Philosophy Series*
Sunday 18 & 25 Mar, 1–5pm
- Free Music and Poetry Performance: La Lettera Amarosa Languages of Love
Friday 23 Mar, 12.30pm
- After Image Seminar – Immediate and Lasting: Picture Perfect Photojournalism*
Thursday 22 Mar, 6 for 6.30pm
- Picture to Print Seminar: Pictures, prints, publicity and propaganda – mass communication and the visual arts*
Saturday 17 Mar, 1.30–4pm
- Swimwear: Designer in Conversation Organised to coincide with FINA World Championships
Wednesday 28 Mar, 2.30pm
* Fees apply, bookings essential
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NGV Women’s Association Lecture
Mythologies of Landscape
The Garden of Love (c. 1465–70),
by the Master of the Stories of Helen,
Studio of Antonio Vivarini,
Felton Bequest 1948,
NGV Collection
The NGV Women’s Association launch the year with a lecture by Dr. Judith Trimble, Associate Professor and Head of the School of Architecture & Building, Deakin University, Geelong.
In ‘Mythologies of Landscape’, Dr Trimble examines the fascinating world of sixteenth–century Venetian landscape painting 7 – the Arcadian dream – and its cultural, political and economic significance to the Venetian Empire.
Date Wednesday 7 Mar, 7pm (drinks served from 6–7pm)
Cost $55
Venue Clemenger BBDO Auditorium NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd
Bookings & Enquiries Maria Ryan 0409 332 099 or Primmy Bright 0419 399 252 / bright@mira.net
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