The May-June issue of NGV Magazine celebrates exhibitions launching this season and works by artists from the NGV Collection. We feature new exhibition, Kimono and preview the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® 2025 exhibition French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ahead of its opening. We also take a deeper look at American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and celebrate the significant addition of Papa dingo – near Kiwirrkurra, 1996, by the late Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and Other Answers, 1945, by Surrealist Kay Sage to the NGV Collection.

ANNUAL APPEAL 2025

In 1915 German avant-garde painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner captured a fleeting moment of joy and repose amid the First World War in the work Officer and waitress (Offizier und Kellnerin). This work is at the centre of the 2025 NGV Annual Appeal, where we welcome donations of any size to bring significant and rare paintings into the NGV Collection.

This represents an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the contribution of one of the most important artists of the early twentieth century through the Collection.

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