REVIEW: Westwood | Kawakubo: In Dialogue
As the title Westwood | Kawakubo suggests, the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) latest fashion exhibition plays to the idea that these two titans of contemporary design need no qualification. Their names are synonymous with the redefining of fashion over the past fifty years. Born a year apart, Vivienne Westwood (1941–2022) and Rei Kawakubo’s (1942–) […]
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REVIEW | Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light
Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light draws on more than 300 photographs and photomedia from the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) collection and the affiliated Shaw Research Library. The Gallery’s curator Maggie Finch shapes material that is disparate in subject, technique, and intention into a coherent passage through photographic modernity. Viewers are reasonably asked […]
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REVIEW: French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Divided into ten thematic sections, the curatorial brief (according to the NGV’s online publicity) is to place “emphasis on the thoughts and observations of the artists themselves.” And, to this effect, texts proliferate but do not dominate. But French Impressionism does not need to take recourse to artists’ intentions. The works, dare I say it, […]
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Dhambit Munuŋgurr
All too few white Australians are aware of the cornucopia of cultural complexities that flourish in the Top End of their country. Despite the best efforts of Anglo settlers and maniacal missionaries to eradicate the languages, beliefs and natural creativity of such peoples as the Yolngu, who hail from north-eastern Arnhem Land, the culture(s) have […]
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Reko Rennie
The western suburbs of Melbourne in the late 1980s. A single mum gathers her children in the morning of what will prove to be a breathless, scorching Melbourne summer’s day. They make their way into the city and enter the doors of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). The air conditioning sweeps over them. The […]
Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson
Working as closely together as Picasso and Braque ever did, Crowley’s and Balson’s work metaphorically unfolds before your colour-saturated eyes. Moving from figuration to abstraction, then confidently entering areas of the non-referential, it is a physical experience that simultaneously lifts your spirits and has you hopping about in excitement. Eventually, the exhilarated viewer ends up […]
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Nina Sanadze
The past several years have seen numerous protests and acts of vandalism directed against public monuments deemed to be offensive, particularly during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 sparked by the death of George Floyd (1973-2020) in the United States. In Australia, the defacement of statues and sites associated with navigator Captain James Cook […]
Awkward Visions: Melbourne Now
Ten years ago, the National Gallery of Victoria presented the first iteration of Melbourne Now: a “blockbuster” summer show featuring over 250 works across the NGV’s two venues. The exhibition aimed to affirm the city’s status as one of the cultural capitals of the world, demonstrating to a broad public the ways in which Melbourne […]
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Keith Haring + Jean-Michel Basquiat
‘Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines’ explores the intersecting lives of two of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
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Hans and Nora Heysen
The NGV showcases a father and daughter working over the advent of Modernism in Australia.
James Doolin
Artist Profile looks back on the colourful life of James Doolin on the occasion of ‘The Field Revisited’ at the NGV
Claudia Moodoonuthi
It’s been an exciting end to the year for Claudia Moodoonuthi – coming off the back of a commissioned body of work currently on display at the National Gallery of Victoria supported by MECCA Brands, as well as a solo show Ruby and Hunter in Dulka Warngiid (Story Place) at Alcaston Gallery opening 14 November.
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Melbourne Now
A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is a snapshot of Melbourne’s cultural identity. Artist Profile spoke to NGV Director Tony Ellwood about this ambitious project.
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LOVE, LOSS & INTIMACY: NGV INTERNATIONAL
DRAWN FROM the National Gallery of Victoria Collection, Love, Loss & Intimacy will feature over sixty prints and drawings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, including works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Munch, and David Hockney amongst others—with Australian artists such as modernist Joy Hester (AP Issue 3), contemporary Indigenous artist Vernon Ah Kee (AP Issue […]
