Lowy Institute at NGV
Lowy Institute Paper Launch: Choosing Openness: Why global engagement is best for Australia by Andrew Leigh

In the early part of the twentieth century, the world turned inwards as fear shut down flows of people and goods across national borders. A century later, can we make a better choice?

Choosing Openness, a new Lowy Institute Paper by the Hon Dr Andrew…

From Dobell’s Cows to Moo Brew
John Kelly Artist Talk

Born in Bristol and raised in Melbourne, John Kelly became an artist after winning a competition promoted on the side of a milk carton. Ten years later in the NGV library, he found a reference to the camouflage papier-mâché cows of World War…

NGV WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION GARDEN DAY

Spend the day exploring the Melbourne garden scene in this rare opportunity to visit private gardens in Stonnington. Homemade preserves, cakes and biscuits, raffle tickets, along with fresh produce and flowers will be available for purchase on the day. All proceeds go towards supporting NGV…

Dressing the Part
Fashion and Influence

In 2016, Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed Dior’s first female creative director in its seventy-year history. Her first ready-to-wear collection was shown in September of that year, and her first haute couture collection debuted in January 2017, both to critical acclaim…

ANAM at NGV: Australian Art and Music

Australian music and art intersect as musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music perform a specially curated repertoire surrounded by works of art in the NGV Collection.
REPERTOIRE
Stanhope, String Quartet No. 2
Schlomowitz, Letter Piece no. 5 for 2 players
Grainger, Lincolnshire Posy…

Members Studio Visit
Gareth Sansom

Visit the Sorrento studio of acclaimed Australian painter Gareth Sansom as the artist discusses his creative process, followed by lunch at The Baths.

Gareth Sansom studied art at RMIT between 1959 and 1964 and came to prominence in the 1960s as a radical convention-breaking…