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In Absence | Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office | 2019 NGV Architecture Commission

By Ewan McEoin

Set among the European pin oak trees of the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden, an enigmatic wooden tower rises upwards from a surrounding field of kangaroo grass, murnong (yams) and an undulating path of crushed Victorian basalt. The nine-metre high by ten…

Colin McCahon: Letters and Numbers

By Jane Devery

I look back with joy on taking a brush of white paint and curving through the darkness with a line of white.1Colin McCahon, quoted in ‘Colin McCahon: a survey exhibition’, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 1972, p. 31.

Colin McCahon…

Shirin Neshat: Dreamers

By Simon Maidment

Japanese Design: Neolithic to Now

By Wayne Crothers

Tammy Kanat: Circles of Life

By Paola Di Trocchio

In the Mind’s Eye

Refik Anadol

Cai Guo-Qiang: The Transient Landscape 360° Experience Alexander S. C. Rower in Conversation with Tony Ellwood Radical Inventor

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Landscapes of the Future

Daan Roosegaarde

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Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something

Interview with Darren Sylvester and Maggie Finch

Melbourne-based contemporary artist Darren Sylvester and NGV curator Maggie Finch explore Sylvester’s first large-scale solo…

The History of Women’s Fashion

Interview with Katie Somerville and April Calahan

Haute couture garments showcased in The Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Fashion Gift reflect the major social and economic shifts…

Collecting Comme Ebook

Features new writing on Rei Kawakubo’s practice, an interview with NGV donor Takamasa Takahashi, video content and more than 150 striking photographs of Comme des Garçons works.

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Black Bamboo: Contemporary Furniture Design from Mer, Torres Strait

By Myles Russell-Cook and Simone LeAmon

Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV

By Judith Ryan

Interview with Julian Rosefeldt

By Katharina Prugger

John Dermer: Potter

By David Hurlston

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Fragile identities: eighteenth-century British portraits in porcelain

By Matthew Martin

‘Mr Cooper’s interesting present’: likeness and learning in William Dyce’s Portrait of HRH the Prince of Wales, 1848, National Gallery of Victoria

By Vivien Gaston

The Lashmar family, 1857–58: emigration, photography and family ties

By Laura Jocic

‘Rich, effective pictorial pageantry’: Augustus John’s Rt. Hon. Harold Chaloner Dowdall, Lord Mayor of Liverpool and his sword-bearer, 1909

By Ted Gott

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