In conjunction with the exhibition ‘Monet’s Garden’ the National Gallery of Victoria is running a short course on history of garden and landscape design. A series of nine lectures presented by art historians and academics in landscape architecture will explores the art and history of garden design from the Italian Renaissance to today. You...
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The latest NGV exhibition is, again, sourced largely from a secondary French museum (the Musée Marmottan Monet, henceforth MMM). Monet exhibitions have traditionally draw large crowds, and are much loved by gallery directors needing to feed the political machines to which they are beholden that equate numbers with success. But if ‘Monet’ is the...
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Impressions of Monet | Monet’s Garden To celebrate the most extensive exhibition of Monet’s work ever to travel to Australia the NGV is holding a symposium with local and international experts that will explore key themes of the exhibition. The symposium is generously supported by the Australian International Cultural Foundation, an affiliate of Art...
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Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Stuart kings James II and James III maintained a royal government in exile, first in France and later in Italy. This court-in-exile formed the political and diplomatic centre of efforts to return the Stuart monarchs to their thrones in Britain culminating in the nearly-successful 1745 military uprising...
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Dr June Ross gives us the next chapter in the story begun by Grahame Walsh when he recognised the significance of the ancient rock art in the Kimberley.
The Change & Continuity project aims to establish a chronology and social context for the production of rock art in the region. The project has involved 23...
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Dr Amelia Barkin discusses Thomas Demand's photographic work in relation to theories of historiography and archival practice in contemporary art.
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Collecting and displaying decorative arts and design is a core function of many leading art museums around the world. Christopher Menz looks at how and why these collections have evolved, how they can be interpreted to new audiences, and what their place is in the art museum of the 21st century.
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The NGV is holding three floortalks around the theme of love for Valentines Day this Thursday (February 14th). For further information see the website. 11.30am Love, lust and desire | Speaker Elizabeth Cross, Senior Researcher, International Art 12.30pm Sex in ceramics: Soft porn in hard paste | Speaker Dr Matthew Martin, Assistant Curator, Decorative...
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Lecture: What is Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? Claire Bishop, The City University of New York Attempts to define the contemporary are suddenly everywhere – in museums, in art history, in theory. But what would be an appropriately ‘contemporary’ reading of contemporaneity? This paper discusses the contemporary as a discursive category, and two...
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Floor Talk: Witchcraft and the Scapegoating of Disaster Professor Charles Zika will speak on the images of witches and witchcraft in the NGV exhibition The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster. The exhibition presents images of death and disaster in prints, illuminated manuscripts, illustrated books and paintings from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries....
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