NGV Friday Nights returns this summer during Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, paying homage to the 1980s and New York downtown. DJs spotlight an 80s music moment each week, mixed in with drag performances, classic cocktails and New York City street food.
6–10pm
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines presents the work of two of the most significant and influential artists of the late twentieth century, revealing fascinating insights into their unique visual languages and the many intersections between their lives, practices and ideas. KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness is not open during NGV Friday Nights.
6–8pm
Soju Gang has been a prominent member of Melbourne’s nightlife scene since 2013 and someone who’s instantly recognisable with her stand-out style remnant of the colourful 80s and 90s. She brings a special set paying homage to women of the 80s with a mix of pop, rock and house.
NGV Garden
6–8pm
Lil Mac
CLOSET Disco Bar
6.30pm
The Last Works | Exhibition Talk
NGV Assistant Curator Meg Slater reflects on the last works by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines
7pm, 8pm & 9pm
Performances by Dandrogyny & Butte Medler
CLOSET Disco Bar
8–10pm
Simonetti
CLOSET Disco Bar
8–10pm
Post-Punk Funk | Ruby Savage (UK)
In an igniting DJ set, this UK performer navigates listeners through the sounds of a unique stream of dance music. Taking note from the incredible DJs that passed through London’s underground club scene and the influence reggae had on UK punk and dub, Ruby Savage plays anything from warm eclectic grooves to straight-up pumping beats.
NGV Garden