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NGV Lecture Series | Creative Shifts in Cultural Cities-Rome

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Creative Shifts in Cultural Cities A series of lectures about cities, art and the concept of place, part of the NGV’s Melbourne Now ‘Talk Now’. There are numerous reasons cities become social and creative centres at any given time in history. As we celebrate contemporary art and culture in our city, Melbourne Now provides a great opportunity to present a lecture series that explores the concept of ‘place’ and the how, why and when that contribute to making a city an artistic mecca. Rome: From Antiquity to Mussolini  | Sylvia Sagona,…

Floortalks | Melbourne Now - Mark Hilton, Penny Byrne, Nick Braun-Sibling

Penny Burne, iProtest, 2013-2013, via National gallery of Victoria

Floortalks | Melbourne Now - Mark Hilton, Penny Byrne, Nick Braun-Sibling Designer Floor Talk- Nick Braun, Sibling SIBLING is a Melbourne design collective that works at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, cultural analysis and graphic communication to produce new and unexpected spatial outcomes. SIBLING’s approach insists on intelligent forms developed from a positive, socially engaged agenda. The practice is a network of eight people – Amelia Borg, Nicholas Braun, Jonathan Brener, Jessica Brent, Jane Caught, Qianyi Lim, Timothy Moore and Alan Ting – who are all trained in architecture and…

Exhibition | Melbourne Now Opening Weekend Events

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Launching Melbourne Now Public Programs Date: Fri 22, Sat 23 & Sun 24, 10am – 5pm Venue: NGV International & NGV Australia Melbourne Now is the largest and most far-reaching initiative ever undertaken by the National Gallery of Victoria. This unprecedented collaboration brings together over 30 curators alongside more than 300 artists, architects and designers of fashion, jewellery and product design to explore creativity in the city. Opening Weekend of Melbourne Now will launch this incredible exhibition through a series of programs which will showcase how the artists, designers and…

Seminar | NGVWA Seminar, Melbourne in a Moment

NGV Women’s Association presents a half day seminar on Melbourne Now. From November 2013, the NGV is staging Melbourne Now – an ambitious and far-reaching exhibition that seeks to explore how creativity in all its forms has helped forge Melbourne’s cultural identity. Melbourne Now will include works from 130 contemporary artists and involves 29 curators. MELBOURNE IN A MOMENT will preview this major exhibition. Our speakers are key curators and artists from Melbourne Now, and include: Tony Ellwood Director, NGV Max Delany, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV Destiny Deacon, artist…