Lecture | Dr Christopher Heathcote – Discovering Dobell | TarraWarra Museum...
William Dobell Gentleman conversing with a prawn 1970 oil on panel 27.8 x 25.4 cm Private collection © Sir William Dobell Art Foundation 2pm, Saturday 22 July Dr. Christopher Heathcote, curator of...
View ArticleSymposium program now available | Academia and Bohemia: new perspectives on...
Students at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, 1895. The full program for the free one-day symposium Academia and Bohemia: new perspectives on the National Gallery School, including...
View ArticleNews and Exhibition | Sidney Nolan’s man behind Ned Kelly mask revealed |...
Recent research by Paula Dredge and Kendrah Morgan with assistance from the Australian Synchrotron has revelead a face behind the mask of one of Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly paintings. From April 22 to...
View ArticleMeet the Artist – Louise Hearman | TarraWarra Museum of Art
IMAGE: Louise Hearman, Untitled #1213 2007, oil on masonite. Collection of the artist. Image courtesy and © the artistPhotograph: Mark Ashkanasyra TarraWarra Museum of Art presents the first survey...
View ArticleExhibition | We Who Love: The Nolan Slates | Heide Museum of Modern Art
Sidney Nolan (Lovers and flowers) January 1942 25.5 x 50.8 cm Collection of The University of Queensland Purhcased with the assistance of the Alumni Association and the Peter Stuyvesant Cultural...
View ArticleOpen Day and Founders Talk at Duldig Studio
Karl Duldig, Koré, 1976, bronze. The Duldig Studio is open on the second Saturday of every month. On Saturday 9 July 2016, we will be open from 1.00 to 3.00pm. See the award winning Art Behind the...
View ArticleNew Book | Hegel’s Owl: The Life of Bernard Smith – Sheridan Palmer
A new book by Sheridan Palmer documenting the life and work of Bernard Smith has recently been published. ‘Better to make history than to write about it. What is needed is a brotherhood of some kind,...
View ArticleExhibition | Max and Olive: the photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max...
Max Dupain, Sunbaker 1937, gelatin silver photograph, 37.7 x 43.2 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Gift of the Philip Morris Arts Grant 1982 Exhibition Dates: Tuesday 31 May 2016 to Sunday...
View ArticleExhibition Review | Whistler’s Mother | NGV International
James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in grey and black no. 1 (Portrait of the artist’s mother) 1871, oil on canvas, 144.3 x 162.5 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris (RF 699) The National Gallery of Victoria’s...
View ArticleSymposium | Turning on Burn: A Reflective Conversation | VCA
Image: Ian Burn shaving in front of his Mirror Piece(1967), New York. A symposium presented by Art & Australia at VCA |Turning on Burn: A Reflective Conversation This symposium explores and...
View ArticleExhibition | Making History – The Angry Penguins | Heide Museum of Modern Art
Arthur Boyd, Butterfly Man, 1943. Oil on muslin on cardboard, 55.5cm x 75.5cm, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. Bequest of John and Sunday Reed ©Bundanon Trust. Image via Heide Museum of Modern...
View ArticleConversation | Jan Senbergs and Patrick McCaughey | NGV Australia
Jan Senbergs with Patrick McCaughey Artist in Conversation Jan SENBERGS Altered Parliament House 1 1976 synthetic polymer paint and oil screenprint on canvas 182.5 x 243.5 cm National Gallery of...
View ArticleExhibitions | Marcin Wojcik – Anna Horne – Paula Hunt – David Attwood and...
Malleable Scenario | Marcin Wojcik Exhibition Dates: Opening Wednesday 16 6-8pm until April 2nd. Malleable Scenario. Marcin Wojcik. Gallery 1. Reaching ‘the scene’ attempts to manifest the elusive...
View ArticleLecture and Symposium | New Perspectives on Italian and Australian Art...
A symposium on new perspectives on Italian and Australian Art History at the University next week, with a keynote by National Gallery of Australia Director Dr Gerard Vaughan. Changing the National...
View ArticleNews | Horsham Regional Art Gallery to re-open after redevelopment
The redeveloped Horsham Regional Art Gallery will reopen this weekend, as part of the new visual and performing arts hub located at the Horsham Town Hall. A $20 million construction project was...
View ArticleExhibition Review | Lurid Beauty: Surrealism and its Echoes | Katrina Grant
Lurid Beauty: Surrealism and its Echoes NGV Australia, Federation Square. The exhibition closes on the 31st January 2016. “Surrealism is a word that is applied to those forms of creative art which are...
View ArticlePublic Forum | The Art of Howard Arkley | TarraWarra Museum of Art
Howard Arkley in front of one of the houses he painted in his House and Homes series, 1988 Photo: Martin Kantor Join us for a panel discussion and audience Q & A with three of Arkley’s friends,...
View ArticlePanel Discussion | Australian Surrealism | NGV International
Max Dupain, Australia 1911–92, Surrealist study 1938, gelatin silver photograph, 45.9 x 35.5 cm (image), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (NGA 2007.949), Purchased with the assistance of James...
View ArticleExhibition | Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes | NGV...
James GLEESON, We inhabit the corrosive littoral of habit 1940, oil on canvas, 40.7 x 51.3 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Anonymous gift, 1941.1096-4, © Courtesy of the artist Exhibition...
View ArticleSeminar | S. T. Gill as eyewitness: art as historical evidence | State...
Diggers on the way to Bendigo, ST Gill, 1869 This seminar is part of the Making Public Histories series. Celebrating the first-ever retrospective of one of Australia’s forgotten artists, S. T. Gill,...
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