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Dan FLAVIN
(American 1933–96)
untitled (to Jan and Ron Greenberg) 1972–73.
Yellow and green fluorescent light, edition 1/3,
246.4 x 213.4 x 25.4 cm.
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, Panza Collection. © Dan Flavin/ARS, New York. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia.
Installation at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Photo by Daniel Mahon
Top image:
Nam June Paik
TV Garden, 1974 (2000 version) (details)
Video and audio installation with monitors and live plants
Dimensions variable
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
© Courtesy of the Estate of Nam June Paik
Installation at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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Guggenheim Collection:
1940s to Now
Must close 5pm Sunday 7 October!
This is your last chance to see post–war and contemporary works gathered from Guggenheim museums from around the world.
Open from 10am–5pm daily, the Guggenheim Collection will remain open until 9pm for the last four days of the exhibition, Wednesday 3–Saturday 6 October.
Hurry, last ticket sales 4pm Sunday 7 October!
Date Until 7 Oct 2007, open daily 10am-5pm
art after dark Wednesday 3 – Saturday 6 Oct 2007 until 9pm
Cost $20 / $16 NGV Member / $16 Concession
Principal Sponsor Mercedes-Benz
Venue NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd
Web www.ngv.vic.gov.au/guggenheim
Program highlights for Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now include:
- Introductory Talk*
Dates Saturday & Sunday, 1pm; Wednesdays 1pm & 6pm
- Family Morning#
Date Sunday 30 Sep, 9am–12noon
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Gordon Bennett
Born Australia 1955
Notes to Basquiat: Double vision 2000
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
152.3 x 182.7 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through the NGV Foundation with the assistance of Henry Gillespie, Governor, 2000
Photography: John O’Brien
© Courtesy of the artist
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Gordon Bennett
Take a journey through the complex and layered work of Gordon Bennett, one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed contemporary artists.
Did you know that The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is open every Thursday until 9pm for Late Night Thursdays @ Fed Square where you can enjoy art, fine food and wine.
Date 6 Sep 2007–16 Jan 2008
Cost $10 / $5 NGV Member / $7 Concession
Venue The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square
Web www.ngv.vic.gov.au/gordonbennett
Program highlights for Gordon Bennett include:
- Lecture – Unsettling Identities, Aboriginalities and other Contemporary Traumas: Gordon Bennett’s Aesthetic Prescriptions*
Speaker Dr Ian McLean, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts,
The University of Western Australia
Date Thursday 18 Oct, 6pm for 6.30pm
- Curator Floor Talk#
Speaker Kelly Gellatly, exhibition curator and Curator,
Contemporary Art
Date Friday 9 Nov, 12.30pm
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Francesco Clemente
Perseverance 1981
(detail). The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Partial and promised gift of UBS, 2002.
© 2007 Francesco Clemente
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An incomplete world: Works from The UBS Art Collection
An incomplete world represents a world in flux. Experience a space where the contrasting forces of order and chaos, of vulnerability and stability, and of nature and culture condition our sense of self and the spaces we inhabit.
Date 28 Sep 2007–6 Jan 2008
Cost Free entry
Principal Sponsor UBS
Venue NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road
Web www.ngv.vic.gov.au/incompleteworld
Program highlights for An incomplete world include:
- Floor Talk: Curator’s Perspective
Speaker Jane Devery, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art
Date Wednesday 10 Oct, 12.30pm
- Free Film: Life, Death, and Damien (2000, 60 mins, unrated)
Date Saturday 13 Oct, 1.30pm
- Floor Talk: Body and Portraiture
Speaker Jason Smith, Director, Monash Gallery of Art
Date Thursday 25 Oct, 12.30pm
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October Public Programs not to be missed!
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Annual Temenos Lecture: Leonardo Di Vinci’s The Last Supper
Speaker Andrew Wolpert, independant scholar and author
Date Saturday 29 Sep, 3pm
- Special Lecture: Matisse’s Women*
Speaker Hilary Spurling, British author and Matisse expert
Date Tuesday 2 Oct, 6pm for 6.30pm
- Melbourne International Arts Festival Floor Talk
Explore several works on show as part of the festival.
Speaker Norbert Loeffler, Lecturer, Visual Arts Theory & History, Victorian College of the Arts
Date Saturday 20 Oct, 3pm
- Symposium for Joseph Beuys & Rudolf Steiner: Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition*
A one day symposium focusing on Steiner, Beuys and their influences on contemporary art practice
Date Saturday 27 Oct, 10am–4pm (registration from 9.30am)
- The NGV: A World of Stories
– Picture Stories with Anne E Stewart
Organised to coincide with Children’s Week 2007.
Date Sunday 21 Oct, 11am & 1.30pm
– Polyglot Puppet Theatre: Headhunter
Organised to coincide with Children’s Week and Public Galleries Association of Victoria Open Day.
Date Sunday 28 Oct, 10.30am & 1pm
*Fees apply, bookings essential
# Exhibition entry fees apply
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NGV Members exclusive exhibition
viewing, Australian Impressionism
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Become an NGV Member and receive 2 FREE tickets to the Guggenheim Collection exhibition.
NGV Members enjoy exclusive benefits and an exciting calendar of events.
Benefits include:
- Exclusive Previews of selected pay exhibitions
- Free Members Viewings of selected pay exhibitions at nominated times
- Exclusive Members parties
- Access to an extensive calendar of lectures, courses and activities tailored to NGV Members
- 10% discount at NGV Shops, cafés and Garden Restaurant
- Free annual subscription to the bi-monthly Gallery magazine
- Updates and special offers via the NGV Members e-newsletter
- Access to NGV Members Lounge at both Galleries with complimentary tea and coffee
- Reciprocal benefits at major interstate and overseas galleries
For more information or to join, phone 03 8662 1522 / 8620 2233 or visit www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ngvmembers
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NGV Shop
Visit the NGV Shop and discover an outstanding range of homewares, fashion accessories, stationery and kids stuff by leading Australian and International designers as well as exclusive NGV logo product and Australia’s most comprehensive selection of art and design books.
NGV Shop at NGV International is open 10am – 5pm. Closed Tuesdays and the NGV Shop at NGV Australia is open 10am – 5pm daily.
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Melbourne City Romp
Part–puzzle and part-history & culture lesson, the Go for your life/Yarra Trams Melbourne City Romp is a brand new Melbourne event that NGV is supporting in its inaugural year. The Romp will involve 15,000 Melburnians walking and tramming their way around the city in this treasure hunt, with $100,000 of prizes up for grabs. All proceeds go to Burnet Institute in its fight against the world’s worst infectious diseases and cancers.
Date Sun 14 Oct 2007
Cost $20 Adult / $10 Student, Concession & Child (6 to 17) / $45 Family
/ Child Free (under 6)
Web www.cityromp.com
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What’s On
The Ian Potter Centre:
NGV Australia
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or enquire in person at the Information Desk.
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