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The paper boy 1888

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Florence Ada Fuller is an artist scarcely recognised today. However, as illustrated in The paper boy, 1888, a recent gift to the NGV by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family, Fuller was a highly gifted portrait painter who had an innate ability to…

Encompassing an Empire

By Holly McGowan-Jackson

It is very likely that English artist E.M. Ward designed this remarkable frame specifically for his painting Josephine signing the act of her divorce. The frame decoration uses official emblems of the French Empire period and directly links to the historical theme…

Josephine and Napoléon divorce

Laurie Benson shares the story behind the painting

Technical insights to Elizabeth Thompson The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras 1875

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Elizabeth Thompson’s The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras

A celebrated military painter

Lady Elizabeth Hamilton’s hidden gesture

By Carl Villis

A hand is discovered in Anne Forbes’ Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Hamilton

Dr. Maria Quirk reflects on the work

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KAWS: The Early Days

Senior Curator Dr Simon Maidment on Brian Donnelly

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Designing a Better World

Marcus Fairs

Presented in partnership with Telstra as part of the Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series.

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Keith Haring, the NGV Waterwall and art in the public space

In 1984, Keith Haring was the first artist to create a work on the NGV Waterwall.

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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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Japanese Modernism: between earthquake and war

By Wayne Crothers

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

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Colin McCahon: Letters and Numbers

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Shirin Neshat: Dreamers

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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

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

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‘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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