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Exhibitions

Exhibition Past

Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson

Exhibition Current

The Joseph Brown Collection

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Colin McCahon Letters and Numbers

Exhibition Past

Modern Australian Women Works from a Private Collection

Exhibition Past

MoMA at NGV 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

A Modern Life Tablewares 1930s–1980s

Exhibition Past

Follow the Flag Australian Artists and War 1914–45

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The Kaleidoscopic Turn From the NGV Collection

Exhibition Past

Nordic Cool Modernist Design

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Robert Jacks Order and Variation

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Mid-Century Modern Australian Furniture Design

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Inge King Constellation

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Late Modern and Contemporary Art

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Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion

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Print Works The Douglas Kagi Donation

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Contemporary Art & Design

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Radiance The Neo-Impressionists

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The Mad Square Modernity in German Art 1910–37

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Vienna: Art & Design Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos

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Endless Present Robert Rooney and Conceptual Art

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European Masters Städel Museum, 19th–20th Century

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Love, Loss & Intimacy

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Salvador Dalí Liquid Desire

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Light Years Photography and Space

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Across the Desert Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia

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Remaking Fashion

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Making a mark Prints and drawings gifted by Ian Brown

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Klippel/Klippel Opus 2008

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Art Deco 1910–1939

Exhibition Past

291 Photographers in the circle of Alfred Stieglitz

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Preserving the past, enriching the future Hugh Williamson’s legacy

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

War The prints of Otto Dix

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Modern Britain 1900–1960 Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand collections

Exhibition Past

Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition Joseph Beuys and Rudolph Steiner

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Role Play Portrait Photography

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An incomplete world Works from The UBS Art Collection

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Yvonne Audette Different Directions 1954–1966

Exhibition Past

Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now New York–Venice–Bilbao–Berlin

Exhibition Past

Great Exhibitions The World Fairs 1851-1937

Exhibition Past

Lucio Fontana and John Nixon (A Dialogue)

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Picasso Love & War 1935–1945

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American Beauty Photographs of the American Social Landscape 1930s–1970s

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Pissarro: The First Impressionist A Retrospective Exhibition

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Margaret Preston Art and Life

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British Art & the 60s from Tate Britain

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Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules

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Flair: From salon to boutique Australian fashion labels through the 60s

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James Gleeson Beyond the Screen of Sight

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15 Minutes of Fame 20 Years of Pop Prints

Exhibition Past

Allan Mitelman Works on Paper 1967-2004

Exhibition Past

Colin McCahon A Question of Faith

Exhibition Past

Fieldwork Australian Art 1968-2002

Exhibition Past

Renoir to Picasso Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Exhibition Past

CommonWealth A Tribute to Federation

Exhibition Past

Colin McCahon A time for messages

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Brett Whiteley The Retrospective

Exhibition Past

Art of the Space Age

Essays

Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright

Intersecting lines: the constructive paintings of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson

Dancing on the edge: Sonia Delaunay and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

Fashioning identity: Madeline Green, Gwen John and Claude Cahun

Moga: the audacity of being a modern girl

Rediscovering Fumie Taniguchi

Modern Australian Women: Works from a Private Collection

John Kaldor’s early Art Projects and the NGV

Constance Jenkins, her painting Friendly critics and the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship

Video art at the National Gallery of Victoria: 1973–78

Pierre Cardin: Jacket and mini dress

The Last Big Artist in Paris, Bernard Buffet

A human, democratic art: three realist artists 1944–1947

Charles Blackman’s Feet beneath the table

Albert Tucker’s City

Elizabeth Fritsch’s Optical vase

Embodied Modernism: Visual arts and the aesthetics of Roger Kemp and Rudolf Steiner

Raising the Flag of Modernism: Ben Nicholson’s 1938

Military Objectives: Some reflections on the forgotten Second World War artist Louis Duffy

Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman

Maurice Denis’s Amour suite

Carlo Bugatti’s Chair, from the Snail Room

Amédée Ozenfant’s Nature morte

Margaret Preston’s Shoalhaven Gorge, New South Wales

Tony Tuckson Untitled – yellow

Collecting the forties in the eighties

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Wool works at the National Gallery of Victoria

Wassily Kandinsky Small worlds VII

‘There is no modern furniture!’: Adolf Loos and the Viennese apartment of Jakob and Melanie Langer

The watershed: Two Decades of American Painting at the National Gallery of Victoria

Videos

Curators Against the Clock | Picasso’s Sculptures The Picasso Century

Curators Against the Clock | Picasso and Politics The Picasso Century

Curators Against the Clock | Marie Laurencin The Picasso Century

Taniguchi Fumie’s Preparing to go out A reflection of changing times

Exhibition Tour – Japanese Modernism

Tim Ross MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art

Françoise Gilot Life of a painter

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Designers e costruttori: ispirati dal gruppo di design Memphis Designer and Builders: Inspired by Memphis design group in Italiano

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The Picasso Century | Creative Calligrammes Levels 3–6

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The Picasso Century | Cubist Collage Levels 3–6

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The Picasso Century | Automatic apparitions Levels 3–6

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Cubist construction Levels 3-6

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Designers and builders: Great art ideas for teachers, inspired by the Memphis Design Group Levels 4-6