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Exhibitions

Exhibition Future

The Golden Hour Australian Impressionism – Origins, Icons & Echoes

Exhibition Past

QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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Rembrandt True to Life

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Lloyd Rees Retrospective

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Westwood | Kawakubo

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Dior in the NGV Collection

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Women Photographers 1900–1975 A Legacy of Light

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Art of the Pacific From the NGV Collection

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Extraordinary Women Works from the NGV Collection

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Women Photographers 1900–1975 A Legacy of Light

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Made to Move: Australian Jewellery 1960–2020

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Arthur Boyd’s Australia

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David Rosetzky Video works from the NGV Collection

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MOTHER Stories from the NGV Collection

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Passage The Art of Atong Atem

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Australiana Designing a Nation

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Lesage X Vionnet Couture Embroidery from the Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM Fashion Research Collection

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Lee Bul Untitled

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2023 MECCA Holiday Collaboration Kaylene Whiskey

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MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission Bethan Laura Wood

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Takahiro Iwasaki Reflection Model (Itsukushima)

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C=O=D=A Cerith Wyn Evans

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Watercolour Country 100 works from Hermannsburg

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Photography Real and Imagined

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2022 MECCA Holiday Collaboration Nadia Hernández

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Freedom of Movement Contemporary Art and Design from the NGV Collection

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China – The past is present

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The Global Life of Design

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Jewellery and Body Adornment from the NGV Collection

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MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission Tatiana Bilbao

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Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection

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History in the making

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Bark Ladies Eleven Artists from Yirrkala

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Shearing the rams Wangaratta Art Gallery

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We Change the World

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Transforming Worlds Change and Tradition in Contemporary India

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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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Japanese Modernism

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Japanese Design Neolithic to Now

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Marking Time Indigenous Art from the NGV

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Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family Suffrage Research Collection

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Colin McCahon Letters and Numbers

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Turning Points Contemporary Photography from China

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Liquid Light 500 Years of Venetian Glass

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Blue Alchemy of a Colour

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Bunyips and Dragons Australian Children's Book Illustrations

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Indigenous Art Moving Backwards into the Future

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The Kaleidoscopic Turn From the NGV Collection

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Medieval Moderns The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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Takahiro Iwasaki Reflection Model (Itsukushima)

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Exquisite Threads English Embroidery 1600s–1900s

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Art of the Table

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Textiles of Michael O’Connell NGV Collection Focus

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The Ancient World

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Visual Music Masters of Light and Colour

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Captivating style 1950s Melbourne

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Dior and Yamamoto The New Look

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Negotiating this world Contemporary Australian Art

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The Four Horsemen Apocalypse, Death and Disaster

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Looking at Looking The Photographic Gaze

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British Watercolours 1760–1900 The Age of Splendour

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Tyger of Wrath William Blake in the National Gallery of Victoria

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CommonWealth A Tribute to Federation

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Pen to Pixel 200 years of Australian Prints & Drawings

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Contemporary encounters

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Second Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria

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Swish Fashionable Melbourne of the 1950s

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From Paris with Love The Graphic Arts in France 1880s-1950s

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City of Light Paris and Photography 1850s-1930s

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Rembrandt 1606-1669 From the Prints and Drawings collection

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Light Sensitive Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund

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Drape Classical Mode to Contemporary Dress

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Black in Fashion Mourning to Night

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Dressed to Rule Imperial Robes of China

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Katie Pye Clothes for Modern Lovers

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Video Resurrection Works by Vito Acconci, Peter Campus and Joan Jonas

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Stormy Weather Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Lace in Fashion

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Building a Collection Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings

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The Gallery Ark

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International Art

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The Joseph Brown Collection

Essays

Martin King: Strangerlands II

Piero Lissoni’s Eda-mame, chaise and Piuma chair

Introducing Wilfredo Lam

The sublime world of Agnes Martin

Women Photographers 1900 – 1975: A Legacy of Light

The lungs of David Attenborough: voice and breath in Layla Vardo’s Orders of magnitude

Elsa Schiaparelli and the art of illusion

Buying for the future: Mary Woodall and Italian Old Master paintings

Making sense of nonsense: pseudo-script on an Italian Renaissance maiolica dish

From the archives: the writing of Ursula Hoff

Introducing Westwood | Kawakubo

Anticipatory magic

Kay Sage: Other answers

Robert Mapplethorpe Irises 1987

Conserving Peter Upward’s Pacific 1972–73

Peter Upward Pacific 1972–73

Tell me about Eugène Boudin

Germaine Krull Métal portfolio 1928

Emmeline Pritchard Botanical Gardens, Melbourne 1874

The meandering line of April Glaser-Hinder

William Blake: Romantic visionary

Sunrise after a squally night

Révolution de la mode

The mystique of Madame Bertaux

The lasting impact of Alfred Felton’s legacy

Collection care and performance art at the NGV MaryJo Lelyveld in conversation with Louise Lawson

Fashion in Tudor and Stuart portraiture Breeze Barrington

The thought of the horse Enzo Cucchi

Dionysus, bag Gucci

Artona chair Afra & Tobia Scarpa, B&B Italia

Look 8, dress Bottega Veneta

Still life with drapery Giorgio Morandi

Monyo 紋様 Exploring traditional kimono patterns

The art of imitation

The crucifixion Paolo Veneziano

Saint Sebastian being cured by Irene Luca Giordano

Centaur carrying off a female faun Giandomenico Tiepolo

The burning of a heretic Sassetta

Trajan and the widow, a panel from a cassone The Master of the Santa Felicità Adoration of the Magi

Virgin and Child with the young Saint John in a garden of roses Francesco Francia, Giacomo Francia & Giulio Francia

Baguette, bag Fendi

Rest on the flight into Egypt with Saint Catherine and angels Paris Bordone

It’s a dog’s life

Richard Avedon Renée, the New Look of Dior, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August 1947

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

Contemporary Korean jewellery

Gemma Smith Bask

Maison Martin Margiela Bodice and Dress and apron

Matthew Harris The British Museum

Rembrandt Abraham Francen, apothecary and Studies of the head of Saskia and others

Elizabeth Emma Soyer The escape

Slow futures: time and techno-orientalist environmental threat in Yang Yongliang’s Phantom landscape

A dance of materials: between the organic and inorganic in Iris van Herpen’s fashion

Frank Lloyd Wright Vase

Southern sojourns: Harden Sidney Melville’s 1874 painting of a Torres Strait canoe animated by Kulkalgal and Kemer Kemer Meriam voices of expeditions along the Great Barrier Reef

Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink

Portrait of Venice: Majestic Murano A journey through the complex history of Venetian glass

Pharmacy jar from Santa Maria Nuova Italy, Florence (manufacturer), Giunta di Tugio (workshop of)

Doge Pietro Loredano Jacopo Tintoretto

The finding of the true cross Cola dell'Amatrice

Les Gray’s Assignment, Rome Elisa Scarton

Alato, vase Gio Ponti

Countess Matilda of Tuscany Gianlorenzo Bernini

The Crossing of the Red Sea Nicolas Poussin

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint John the Baptist, Saint James of Compostela and Saint Nicholas of Bari Agnolo Gaddi

Filippo Neri Italy/Spain

Crucifixion Prospero Mallerini

Dress and coat, spring–summer 2014 Prada, Milan

The well Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Holy Family of Francis I, St Elizabeth, Saint John and the infant Christ Giulio Romano

Capriccio: a tomb by a lagoon Canaletto

Diana Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Study for an ignudo Annibale Carracci

Sites of refuge, connection, creation, resistance and loss: the queer bar and nightclub in the twentieth century

When Crowley Met Balson

Surrealism and Design

A journey through Watercolour Country

Ore streams – Table Formafantasma

Ore streams – Low chair Formafantasma

Ore streams – Desk Formafantasma

Ore streams – Screen 2 Formafantasma

Ore streams – Screen 1 Formafantasma

Post Mundus chair Martino Gamper

Alice armchair Jacopo Foggini

The rise and fall of Milan Memphis

A radical style

Artist Profile: Frank Lloyd Wright

Bi Warrior Figure, 2022

Design through history : Shaker design and furniture

Dame Elisabeth’s embroidered garden

The Interior Space

Joy Hester Pauline McCarthy

Edwaert Collier Trompe l’œil with a letter rack holding newspapers, letters, writing equipment and a comb

England Bedcover

The rainbow flag: a borderless design

Sèvres Porcelain Factory Eleven figures from The Scarf Dance, table centrepiece (Le Jeu de l’Écharpe)

Coming back home

The rise and fall of Glyn Philpot

Hannah Brontë EYE HEAR U MAGIK

Richard Estes Urban landscapes I

Tcheu Siong Chao and the Three Spirits (Yawm Saub Chao)

Interpreting Shunga scroll: sex and desire between women in Edo’s ‘floating world’

Paul Yore The Evacuation of Mallacoota

Queering the nation, querying the history of Black portraiture: Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama as a healing ritual

Spring, from the four seasons

Writer Response: Emotion and Empathy

Hidden behind the candlelight

China – The Past Is Present

Global trade and the rise of luxury

Jewellery and Body Adornment from the NGV Collection

A Studio of Their Own: Lavinia Fontana and Elisabetta Sirani

Sampling the Future

Found and Gathered

The articulate landscape of Thomas Clark

In her likeness: Recasting the stories of famous women in art

‘Who was this talented Maria Margaretha la Fargue?’

Rebels: The Life-changing Women’s Movement Behind a Prison Medal

An ode to the airbag

We Change the World

Country without Rain

The art of mindfulness

In conversation: Lee Darroch

Seeing what they saw

Can we all have a happy life?

The intricate designs of Lisa Waup

NGV x MECCA: Louise Zhang

Fragile beauty: emu eggs in early Australian gold and silverware

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Gäna (Self)

Aïda Muluneh Amusement at the park

Julian Rosefeldt In the Land of Drought

Adam Goodrum, Arthur Seigneur Bloom, cabinet

Adolf Loos Table lamp

Robert Jacks Temple gate

Louise Bouteiller Césarine de Houdetot, Baronne de Barante reading Paul et Virginie

Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves Bag

Living annotations (for Clare Milledge)

A trick of the eye: illusion, mimicry and camouflage in nature and art

Pataikos, slayer of snakes

Making sense of nonsense: pseudo-script on an Italian Renaissance maiolica dish

The power of ‘women’s work’: craftivism

Behind the lines

Prisoners and internees

Fashioning identity: Madeline Green, Gwen John and Claude Cahun

Dancing on the edge: Sonia Delaunay and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

Divergent Ambitions: The Door of Hope Mission in early twentieth-century Shanghai

Indigenous Voices of Creative Assertion and Resistance

Are You Listening? The poster as a site for resistance

Raising the Flag

Aboriginal Feminism and Gender

Mary Beale: pioneer of portraiture

Living Libraries: Feminist histories in the art of Emily Floyd

Selling Suffrage: Visual culture and merchandise

Elsa Schiaparelli and the art of illusion

Away with the fairies. Edwin Landseer’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom, 1848–1851

Magical transformations: Yawkyawk and Ngalyod become art

Rediscovering Fumie Taniguchi

The artist’s daughter

David Hockney Sunflowers

Videos

Design and Change with Brodie Neill We Change the World

Art and Change with Ryan Presley We Change the World

We Change the World | NGV Teen Council 2021 Reflections

Buddhism, Mindfulness & Asia Asia Society X NGV

NGV Teen Council 2020 | Lauren Favourite works from the NGV Collection

NGV Teen Council 2020 | Ben

NGV Teen Council 2020 | Isabella

NGV Teen Council 2020 | Maximus

NGV Teen Council 2020 | Mila

NGV Teen Council 2020 | Monet

NGV Teen Council 2020 | Venice

Helen Maudsley’s Artistic lady With NGV Curator

Large and Lavish: Italian Cassoni Chests NGV Curator shares their history

NGV’s Australian Gold Collection Stories of Melbourne

Daniel von Sturmer | Tableaux Plastique (Sequence 2)

Whiteley’s Lasting Legacy Wendy Whiteley

Amedeo Modigliani Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert

Programs

Art After School | Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for Educators Online Teacher Professional Learning

Australian Collection Highlights Tour

International Collection Highlights Tour

Observational Drawing Four–Week Course

Cyanotype Printing One-Day Course

Educator briefing | Navigating the Triennial with your students Professional Learning for Teachers

Online Course: Surrealism – 1920s to Now

Listen

Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act Podcast

She Persists Perspectives on Women in Art & Design

Learn resources

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Accessible Learning with Jacopo Amigoni

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Accessible Learning with Alan Constable

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Accessible Learning with Art

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Accessible Learning with Rona Rapangka Rubuntja

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Accessible Learning with Dhambit Munuŋgurr

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Accessible Learning with Trevor Turbo Brown

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Bark Ladies: Eleven artists from Yirrkala | Brief Teacher Resource

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We Change the World PASS Project: AEF and NGV Collaborative Schools Partnership  Levels 9–11

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We Change the World | Brief Teacher Resource

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Allegory, parody and appropriation with Tiepolo’s The banquet of Cleopatra Levels 9-10

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Chinese Ceramics Throughout History Levels 8-10

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Life and power in ancient Rome Levels 7-8

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Short-form poetry with Kim Hoa Tram’s Pine with cranes dancing in the snow, dance in motion, 2000 Levels 6-9

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Exhibiting Artworks at the NGV Levels VCE

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Creativity at Home Inspired by the NGV

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Asian Art Resource All levels