Members Workshop: Geo-Form with Antonia Sellbach

Inspired by artists in The Field, explore colour, the hard and soft edge, geometric shape, composition and modularity with local abstract artist Antonia Sellbach.

Outcomes
1. Learn how to create a modular artwork
2. Explore colour and the soft and hard edge
3. Learn about…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Members Book Club
In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizak

Members Book Club is an opportunity to come together and discuss classic and contemporary literature over a cup of tea and examine art through a literary lens with books selected to accompany current NGV exhibitions. Join the discussion with NGV Facilitator, Maggie Burgess

Moving Through MoMA: Floor Talk Series
Inner and Outer Worlds

MoMA at NGV features more than 130 years of radical artistic innovation including paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs and furniture. Discover the stories behind works in the MoMA collection in a series of talks presented by The University of Melbourne

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

NGV Friday Nights
TRANSIENTS TRIO #2

AMERICAN EXPRESS
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Major Partner American Express is pleased to offer Card Members 15% off Friday Nights tickets. Enter the first four digits of your card number (the long number on the front of the card) to access this offer.
Please have your…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Weekend Workshops: Term 3
Ages 10-14
Week 5

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required to complete the consent…

Members Exclusive: Term 3 Weekend Workshops
Ages 5-9
Week 5

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised. NGV Members exclusive programs.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required…

Members Book Club
In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizak

Members Book Club is an opportunity to come together and discuss classic and contemporary literature over a cup of tea and examine art through a literary lens with books selected to accompany current NGV exhibitions. Join the discussion with NGV Facilitator, Maggie Burgess

Simone Forti, Huddle

Simone Forti’s seminal performance piece Huddle, 1961, will be performed in Federation Court as part of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Forti was a key figure of New York’s 1960s Judson Dance Theater, and helped pioneer a new…

Be the Artist: Geo-Form with Antonia Sellbach

Inspired by artists in The Field, explore colour, the hard and soft edge, geometric shape, composition and modularity with local abstract artist Antonia Sellbach.

Outcomes
1. Learn how to create a modular artwork
2. Explore colour and the soft and hard edge
3. Learn about…

MoMA at NGV
Tours in Mandarin

Tour of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art conducted in Mandarin.

Please register at the Information Desk one hour prior to the tour

Weekend Workshops: Term 3
Ages 5-9
Week 5

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required to complete the consent…

ANAM at NGV: Australian Art and Music

Explore the intersection of Australian music and visual art as musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) perform a curated repertoire inspired by The Field Revisited.
PROGRAM
LIGETI 10 pieces for wind quintet (some movements), 1968
ROONEY Second landscape for instruments (Slippery seal…

Members Exclusive Access
MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art

MELBOURNE WINTER MASTERPIECES 2018

Members are invited to an exclusive morning viewing of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, featuring over 200 works from MoMA’s collection and tracing the development of art and design from late 19th century urban and…

Dangerous Opinion: An Evening with Maureen Dowd
Presented by NGV and The New York Times

This program is fully booked. To be added to the waitlist, please email your full name, contact number and number of guests to programs@ngv.vic.gov.au. We will contact you if tickets become available. 

In a rare appearance on Australian shores, Pulitzer Prize…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Members Exhibition Preview & Talk
Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions
Members Introductory Curator Talk

Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions brings together two giants of Australian art: George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley, featuring both iconic and never before exhibited works.

Members can preview the exhibition before it opens to the public and learn more from Guest Curator Sasha Grishin at an…

Members Exhibition Preview & Talk
Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions
Members Exhibition Preview

Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions brings together two giants of Australian art: George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley, featuring both iconic and never before exhibited works.

Members can preview the exhibition before it opens to the public and learn more from Guest Curator Sasha Grishin at an…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Ten-minute Talk: Ventilator by Olafur Eliasson

NGV curators provide a short introduction to Olafur Eliasson’s hypnotic and captivating sculpture installation in NGV’s Federation Court in a series of ten-minute talks

NGV Friday Nights
THE SENEGAMBIAN JAZZ BAND

AMERICAN EXPRESS
CARD MEMBER TICKETS
Major Partner American Express is pleased to offer Card Members 15% off Friday Nights tickets. Enter the first four digits of your card number (the long number on the front of the card) to access this offer.
Please have your…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
The Gallery Workout

Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and NGV

Join NYC’s Monica Bill Barnes & Company for a 50-minute exercise tour through Arts Centre Melbourne and the NGV. Elevating your heart rate in this illicit trespass outside opening hours, The Gallery Workout inspires new perspectives…

Weekend Workshops: Term 3
Ages 10-14
Week 6

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required to complete the consent…

Members Exclusive: Term 3 Weekend Workshops
Ages 5-9
Week 6

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised. NGV Members exclusive programs.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required…

Simone Forti, Huddle

Simone Forti’s seminal performance piece Huddle, 1961, will be performed in Federation Court as part of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Forti was a key figure of New York’s 1960s Judson Dance Theater, and helped pioneer a new…

Behind the Art

To mark the opening weekend of Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions, Wendy Whiteley and Tess Baldessin reflect on the artists lives and their ongoing legacy.
SPEAKERS
Tess Baldesssin
Wendy Whiteley

Weekend Workshops: Term 3
Ages 5-9
Week 6

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required to complete the consent…

Moving Through MoMA: Floor Talk Series
Art as Action

MoMA at NGV features more than 130 years of radical artistic innovation including paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs and furniture. Discover the stories behind works in the MoMA collection in a series of talks presented by The University of Melbourne

Relaxed Morning
MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art
Relaxed Morning: MoMA at NGV

This relaxed morning viewing of Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art will provide a quieter Gallery experience for visitors with autism, sensory sensitivities or those living with a disability.

During this session, visitors will have access to…

Celebrating NGV’s New Home

NGV curators Beckett Rozentals and Simone LeAmon tour audiences through the history behind the NGV’s new building on St Kilda Rd, which opened on 20 August 1968

Curator’s Perspective

George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley were born in the same year – 1939 – and in the 1960s and 1970s experienced meteoric success in their respective cities of Melbourne and Sydney.

Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions brings together these two giants of Australian art, featuring both iconic and…

NGV Women’s Association Spring Lunch
Guest speaker: Carla Zampatti AC

Carla Zampatti AC is an Australian women’s fashion designer, renowned for designing clothes which combine Australian creativity with Italian style. Born in Lovero Italy, Carla and her family arrived in Australia in 1950. In 1965, Carla produced her first small collection, followed two years…

Baldessin / Whiteley Educator Evening
PARALLEL VISIONS

George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley were born in the same year – 1939 – and in the 1960s and 1970s experienced meteoric success in their respective cities of Melbourne and Sydney.

Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions combines some of the artists’ most iconic works as well as others…

NGV Friday Nights
CHRIS MCNULTY

AMERICAN EXPRESS
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Major Partner American Express is pleased to offer Card Members 15% off Friday Nights tickets. Enter the first four digits of your card number (the long number on the front of the card) to access this offer.
Please have your…

Weekend Workshops: Term 3
Ages 10-14
Week 7

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required to complete the consent…

Members Exclusive: Term 3 Weekend Workshops
Ages 5-9
Week 7

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised. NGV Members exclusive programs.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required…

Curator’s Lectures
Baldessin/Whiteley
Part 1 – George Baldessin

Born on the same year in 1939, George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley both became highly successful in their respective cities of Melbourne and Sydney.

Before viewing Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions, hear from exhibition curator Sasha Grishin AM about the lives and careers of both artists…

Simone Forti, Huddle

Simone Forti’s seminal performance piece Huddle, 1961, will be performed in Federation Court as part of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Forti was a key figure of New York’s 1960s Judson Dance Theater, and helped pioneer a new…

Weekend Workshops: Term 3
Ages 5-9
Week 7

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required to complete the consent…

MoMA at NGV
Tours in Mandarin

Tour of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art conducted in Mandarin.

Please register at the Information Desk one hour prior to the tour

Between Two Worlds | Escher X nendo Briefing for Educators

In advance of the opening of Between Two Worlds | Escher X nendo, join the NGV Learning team for a free briefing exploring the intriguing worlds of artists M. C. Escher and Japanese design studio nendo, whose work comes together for the first time in this…

Moving Through MoMA: Floor Talk Series
Things as They Are

MoMA at NGV features more than 130 years of radical artistic innovation including paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs and furniture. Discover the stories behind works in the MoMA collection in a series of talks presented by The University of Melbourne

Ten-minute Talk: Ventilator by Olafur Eliasson

NGV curators provide a short introduction to Olafur Eliasson’s hypnotic and captivating sculpture installation in NGV’s Federation Court in a series of ten-minute talks

NGV Friday Nights
LINDA MAY HAN OH & FABIAN ALMAZAN

AMERICAN EXPRESS
CARD MEMBER TICKETS
Major Partner American Express is pleased to offer Card Members 15% off Friday Nights tickets. Enter the first four digits of your card number (the long number on the front of the card) to access this offer.
Please have your…

Weekend Workshops: Term 3
Ages 10-14
Week 8

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required to complete the consent…

Members Exclusive: Term 3 Weekend Workshops
Ages 5-9
Week 8

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised. NGV Members exclusive programs.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required…

Simone Forti, Huddle

Simone Forti’s seminal performance piece Huddle, 1961, will be performed in Federation Court as part of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Forti was a key figure of New York’s 1960s Judson Dance Theater, and helped pioneer a new…

NGV Members
Orientation Tours
NGV International

If you have recently become an NGV Member or would like to learn more about your Gallery, join us for a free orientation tour of the NGV facilities.

The orientation tour concludes with a free Voluntary Guide Tour of the NGV Collection (optional) and tea…

Curator’s Lectures
Baldessin/Whiteley
Part 2 – Brett Whiteley

Born on the same year in 1939, George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley both became highly successful in their respective cities of Melbourne and Sydney.

Before viewing Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions, hear from exhibition curator Sasha Grishin AM about the lives and careers of both artists…

Weekend Workshops: Term 3
Ages 5-9
Week 8

Weekend Workshops offer the flexibility to book into single or multiple sessions. Budding artists discover the NGV Collection and create their own works of art using a variety of media. Fully supervised.

Weekend Workshops are supervised and parents/guardians are required to complete the consent…

NGV Members
Orientation Tours
NGV Australia

If you have recently become an NGV Member or would like to learn more about your Gallery, join us for a free orientation tour of the NGV facilities.

The orientation tour concludes with a free Voluntary Guide Tour of the NGV Collection (optional) and tea…

Moving Through MoMA: Floor Talk Series
Immense Encyclopedia

MoMA at NGV features more than 130 years of radical artistic innovation including paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs and furniture. Discover the stories behind works in the MoMA collection in a series of talks presented by The University of Melbourne

MoMA at NGV
Auslan Tour

Led by artist, Elizabeth Reed
Presented in Auslan. No English interpretation is provided…

NGV Friday Nights
SPEEDBALL

AMERICAN EXPRESS
CARD MEMBER TICKETS
Major Partner American Express is pleased to offer Card Members 15% off Friday Nights tickets. Enter the first four digits of your card number (the long number on the front of the card) to access this offer.
Please have…

Simone Forti, Huddle

Simone Forti’s seminal performance piece Huddle, 1961, will be performed in Federation Court as part of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Forti was a key figure of New York’s 1960s Judson Dance Theater, and helped pioneer a new…

Moving Through MoMA: Floor Talk Series
Flight Patterns

MoMA at NGV features more than 130 years of radical artistic innovation including paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs and furniture. Discover the stories behind works in the MoMA collection in a series of talks presented by The University of Melbourne

Eva Rothschild in Conversation
Presented in association with ACCA and Melbourne International Arts Festival

Internationally acclaimed Irish-born, London-based artist Eva Rothschild speaks in conversation with Max Delany, Artistic Director and CEO of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) about her new and recent sculptural works.

Rothschild will explore her interest in the social aspect of sculpture…

Art Party
NGV Teens

Be a part of the teen takeover of NGV during Art Party. Your ticket gets you exclusive after-hours access to the blockbuster exhibition, MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art alongside the opportunity to explore art and design, meet new people…

MoMA at NGV
Tours in Mandarin

Tour of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art conducted in Mandarin.

Please register at the Information Desk one hour prior to the tour

Members Book Club
The Strays by Emily Bitto

Members Book Club is an opportunity to come together and discuss classic and contemporary literature over a cup of tea and examine art through a literary lens with books selected to accompany current NGV exhibitions. Join the discussion with NGV Facilitator, Maggie Burgess

Ten-minute Talk: Ventilator by Olafur Eliasson

NGV curators provide a short introduction to Olafur Eliasson’s hypnotic and captivating sculpture installation in NGV’s Federation Court in a series of ten-minute talks

NGV Friday Nights
REMI

AMERICAN EXPRESS
CARD MEMBER TICKETS
Major Partner American Express is pleased to offer Card Members 15% off Friday Nights tickets. Enter the first four digits of your card number (the long number on the front of the card) to access this offer.
Please have…

Simone Forti, Huddle

Simone Forti’s seminal performance piece Huddle, 1961, will be performed in Federation Court as part of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Forti was a key figure of New York’s 1960s Judson Dance Theater, and helped pioneer a new…

Members Book Club
The Strays by Emily Bitto

Members Book Club is an opportunity to come together and discuss classic and contemporary literature over a cup of tea and examine art through a literary lens with books selected to accompany current NGV exhibitions. Join the discussion with NGV Facilitator, Maggie Burgess

NGV Friday Nights
MAURICE BROWN

AMERICAN EXPRESS
CARD MEMBER TICKETS
Major Partner American Express is pleased to offer Card Members 15% off Friday Nights tickets. Enter the first four digits of your card number (the long number on the front of the card) to access this offer.
Please have…

Simone Forti, Huddle

Simone Forti’s seminal performance piece Huddle, 1961, will be performed in Federation Court as part of MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Forti was a key figure of New York’s 1960s Judson Dance Theater, and helped pioneer a new…

Saturday Night at NGV
MAURICE BROWN

AMERICAN EXPRESS
CARD MEMBER TICKETS
Major Partner American Express is pleased to offer Card Members 15% off Friday Nights tickets. Enter the first four digits of your card number (the long number on the front of the card) to access this offer.
Please have…

NGV Members
Orientation Tours
NGV International

If you have recently become an NGV Member or would like to learn more about your Gallery, join us for a free orientation tour of the NGV facilities.

The orientation tour concludes with a free Voluntary Guide Tour of the NGV Collection (optional) and tea…

NGV Members
Orientation Tours
NGV Australia

If you have recently become an NGV Member or would like to learn more about your Gallery, join us for a free orientation tour of the NGV facilities.

The orientation tour concludes with a free Voluntary Guide Tour of the NGV Collection (optional) and tea…

Fame, Feast and Femme Fatale: The Banquet of Cleopatra
Presented in collaboration with The Wheeler Centre
The Legend

The legend of Cleopatra has everything: opulence, power, seduction and celebrity.

The audacious power plays and tumultuous love affairs of the last Queen of Egypt have captivated artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers for more than 2000 years.

The Banquet of Cleopatra (1743–44) by Giambattista…

Meet the Designer
Danielle Brustman

Recommended for Educators, VCE and Tertiary students

Recognising excellence in Australian design, the Rigg Design Prize is the highest accolade for contemporary design in Australia. The triennial prize is awarded to an Australian design practice displaying outstanding creative achievements in contemporary design.

The shortlist for…

Fame, Feast and Femme Fatale: The Banquet of Cleopatra
Presented in collaboration with The Wheeler Centre
The History

The legend of Cleopatra has everything: opulence, power, seduction and celebrity.

The audacious power plays and tumultuous love affairs of the last Queen of Egypt have captivated artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers for more than 2000 years.

The Banquet of Cleopatra (1743–44) by Giambattista…

Members Book Club
The Unknown Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac

Members Book Club is an opportunity to come together and discuss classic and contemporary literature over a cup of tea and examine art through a literary lens with books selected to accompany current NGV exhibitions. Join the discussion with NGV Facilitator, Maggie Burgess

Members Book Club
The Unknown Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac

Members Book Club is an opportunity to come together and discuss classic and contemporary literature over a cup of tea and examine art through a literary lens with books selected to accompany current NGV exhibitions. Join the discussion with NGV Facilitator, Maggie Burgess

Fame, Feast and Femme Fatale: The Banquet of Cleopatra
Presented in collaboration with The Wheeler Centre
The Whitewash

The legend of Cleopatra has everything: opulence, power, seduction and celebrity.

The audacious power plays and tumultuous love affairs of the last Queen of Egypt have captivated artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers for more than 2000 years.

The Banquet of Cleopatra (1743–44) by Giambattista…