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June 2024

  • Five statues on display

    Pyramid scheme: the Pharaoh show comes to the National Gallery of Victoria

    After eight years of discussion the British Museum’s biggest international show is the largest Egyptian exhibition yet staged in Australia

April 2024

  • Yayoi Kusama inside her infinity mirror room titled The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away at the David Zwirner gallery in New York in 2013

    Australian arts in focus
    Yayoi Kusama exhibition to bring art star’s infinity rooms and polka dots to NGV

    The National Gallery of Victoria will show eight decades of work by the Japanese artist who’s become an Instagram favourite in her 90s

December 2023

  • David Shrigley with some of his artworks

    Three things
    Three things with David Shrigley: ‘I’ve had lots of artworks stolen – I consider it a form of flattery’

    In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the British artist nerds out on stationery – and mourns the entire exhibition he once lost
  • Jakarta
10 street photographers around the world have been commissioned to capture the urban environment of ten global megacities, with a population exceeding 10 million. Capturing a snapshot of life in their cities for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial

    Megacities: life in the cities home to more than 10 million people – photo essay

    From Tokyo to Cairo, 10 photographers around the world have captured a snapshot of life in their cities for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial
  • Sheila Hicks’ work Nowhere to go on display as part of NGV Triennial

    NGV Triennial 2023 review: plenty of showstoppers – and cheek – in another blockbuster show

    With more than 120 artists including Tracey Emin, Yoko Ono and David Shrigley, there’s something for everyone at Melbourne’s major art event. Just don’t try to see it all at once

November 2023

  • Agnieszka Pilat with one of the Boston Dynamics dogs she uses to paint

    Robot dogs have unnerved and angered the public. So why is this artist teaching them to paint?

    Agnieszka Pilat calls herself a ‘propaganda artist’ for technology. But when the machines are sold to governments, police and military, what’s the line between art and an ad?

October 2023

  • Mount Rushmore 1969Friedlaender is one of the greats of 20th century photography. I love this image because it’s humorous but it also speaks to US society at that point in time. We have this very ordinary couple looking out the window of the Mt Rushmore visitor centre. It speaks to mass tourism, it speaks to the aspirations of Americans, it speaks so much to the 20th century, which is often referred to as ‘the American century’.

    Real or imagined? NGV examines both sides of photography — in pictures

    A new National Gallery of Victoria exhibition showcases more than 200 photographs that exemplify the form’s ability to capture reality and fool us with fantasy

June 2023

  • Interior designer and architect India Mahdavi, with furniture she designed inside the NGV’s Pierre Bonnard exhibition and Bonnard’s painting La Symphonie pastorale 1916–20

    Pierre Bonnard meets a ‘colour supertaster’: inside the National Gallery of Victoria’s dazzling new show

  • Installation view of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn’s Self-portrait 1659 from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC on display in Rembrandt: True to Life on display from 2 June - 10 September at NGV International, Melbourne.

    Rembrandt: True to Life exhibition – a thoughtful celebration of the Dutch old master

April 2023

  • Agnieszka Pilat with one of the Boston Dynamics dogs she uses to paint

    Robot dogs among 100 artists to be unleashed on Melbourne for 2023 NGV Triennial

    Painter Agnieszka Pilat and her trained robots join a lineup that includes Yoko Ono, Tracey Emin and fashion house Schiaparelli

December 2022

  • Installation view of
Alexander
McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse
on display at NGV
International from 11
December 2022
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16 April
2023.
Headpiece
by
Michael Schmidt
Photo: Sean Fennessy

    The mind of McQueen: ‘No designer I’ve ever worked for could think like this’

    Developed with Alexander McQueen’s collaborators and peers, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria is a journey through the designer’s piercing abilities

November 2022

  • Temple of Boom at the NGV

    From Athens with love: the NGV’s dizzying recreation of the Parthenon

    Temple of Boom sees the ancient monument reconstructed and covered with art in the gallery’s garden, inviting the public to reflect on its beauty – and complicated history

June 2022

  • Marie Laurencin French 1883–1956 Apollinaire and his friends (2nd version) (Apollinaire et ses amis [2ème version]) 1909 oil on canvas 130.0 x 194.0 cm Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle Donated in lieu of tax, 1973 © Fondation Foujita/ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2022 Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM- CCI/Audrey Laurans/Dist. RMN-GP

    ‘A genius is a sponge’: inside the new Picasso exhibition that isn’t all about Picasso

  • Still Lives exhibition with AFL players tied up in rope and suspended from the ceiling

    Why five AFL players are being suspended from the ceiling of a Melbourne art gallery

May 2022

  • Fashion designer Alexander McQueen

    Major Alexander McQueen exhibition to open in Victoria in late 2022

    Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse will open at the NGV in December and will feature more than 100 garments alongside artistic influences

April 2022

  • Sangita Jogi
Indian c. 1991
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Women rescuers
2020
ink on paper
27.8 x 38.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
Purchased, NGV
Supporters of Asian Art,
2021

    The family who invented an art style: ‘He was so scared he would break the pen … now the children do it’

  • Supplied artwork of the winning design for the National Gallery of Victoria Contemporary redevelopment

    Lindsay and Paula Fox donate a record $100m for National Gallery of Victoria space

March 2022

  • The winning design for the NGV Contemporary building by Angelo Candalepas and associates.

    ‘Gamechanger’: design unveiled for National Gallery of Victoria’s contemporary art space

    The redevelopment will feature 13,000 sq metres of exhibition space, a rooftop terrace and restaurant
  • An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo by Yasumasa Morimura, on display at the NGV.

    Dazzling, subversive, confronting: inside Queer, a landmark Australian art show

    From ancient Egypt to Kylie, this NGV exhibition celebrates camp, gender, love and activism, to dispel the idea that art ‘is heterosexual until proven otherwise’
  • Figures by the sea (Figures au bord de la mer) 1931 oil painting on canvas by Pablo Picasso

    ‘Audiences will be delighted’: major Picasso exhibition set for Melbourne in June

    The National Gallery of Victoria’s exclusive show will also feature more than 100 works from Picasso’s contemporaries
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