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25.01.2022 TIWI, the largest exhibition of Tiwi art in the world, is now open at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square. Book your free timed-entry Gallery tickets --> https://fal.cn/3bLJS #NGVTIWI ... Installation view of TIWI Photo by: Tom Ross See more

23.01.2022 DESTINY is now open at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square. Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser created this interior specifically for this exhibition. Over the past thirty years, Deacon has created a number of domestic interiors presented inside gallery settings. These lounge rooms and kitchens are always, to an extent, based on Deacon’s own home. Objects, photographs, posters, flags and various knick-knacks turn otherwise ordinary domestic interiors into identi...fiably blak spaces. The room is filled with Deacon's personal collection of 'Koori kitsch'. At best, these knick-knacks portray Aboriginal people as merely decoration and at worst, represent overtly racist perspectives of Aboriginal people. Over the years Deacon has amassed a considerable collection of Koori kitsch. In her own words, she has been rescuing Koori kitsch ‘since forever’: ‘In the beginning I wanted to rescue them, because otherwise they’d end up in a white home or something, somewhere no one would appreciate them.’ By amassing her personal collection and putting it inside the Gallery, Deacon challenges audiences to consider how everyday material culture can be, and often is, inherently racist. Deacon also elevates these objects, removing their status as derogatory and giving them with a second, more dignified, life. Book your free timed-entry tickets now --> https://fal.cn/3bPph #NGVDestiny Installation view of Destiny Deacon Photo: Tom Ross

22.01.2022 We miss welcoming everyone inside the Gallery but have enjoyed seeing your beautiful photos of the NGV over the last few months. Stay safe, Melbourne. We look forward to welcoming you back soon. #NGVEveryDay Re-gram: @kersh_kreative, @throughthelens_._, @danielinmelbourne,@ @silverr.liningg, @nicoleciancimino ... @oslo_the_groodle See more

22.01.2022 VCE STUDENTS: Apply now to enter the Top Arts 2021 exhibition. Part of the VCAA Season of Excellence, the annual Top Arts exhibition is a celebration of the creativity and talent of young artists across the state. Now in its twenty-seventh year, the exhibition showcases outstanding work created by students who have completed VCE Art and VCE Studio Arts. In 2021 we look forward to presenting an exhibition which celebrates the resilience, creativity and innovation of students... in what has been an extraordinary year. Learn how to apply --> https://fal.cn/3aaeu #TopArtsNGV #NGVEveryDay With thanks to Principal Partner Macquarie Group @macquariegroup Major Partner Deakin University @deakinuniversity Education Supporters Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Catholic Education Melbourne and Independent Schools Victoria

20.01.2022 Apply now to participate in #MelbourneDesignWeek 2021, Australia's premier festival of local and international design. If you have a story to tell, an idea to discuss, an issue to debate, new work to unveil Melbourne Design Week is for you. Apply here --> designweek.melbourne With thanks to Presenting Partner Creative Victoria @creative_vic Major Partners Mercedes-Benz @mercedesbenzau and Telstra @telstra and Design Partner RMIT University @rmituniversity... Melbourne Design Week and the Victorian Design Program are initiatives of the Victorian Government. The NGV Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture is generously supported by The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation. Image: Material studies for DBPPE post COVID facemask series, 2020 by Alice Potts. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Image courtesy the artist

20.01.2022 We are very proud to announce that In Absence, the 2019 NGV Architecture Commission has been selected from across the globe to win the Small Buildings category of the 2020 @Dezeen Awards. The judges described this thought-provoking and immersive work by contemporary artist and Kokatha and Nukunu woman Yhonnie Scarce and Melbourne architecture studio Edition Office as ‘a beacon of hope; powerful and visceral’. In Absence asks audiences to better understand the fallacy of the p...remise of Terra Nullius, which declared Australia as an emptiness awaiting ownership, by revealing and celebrating over 3000 generations of Indigenous design, industry and agriculture. This well-deserved recognition is one of many accolades awarded to In Absence over the past twelve months. Congratulations to Scarce, Edition Office and the team who brought this incredible installation to life. Read more about the 2020 Dezeen awards --> https://fal.cn/3bLP3 Photo by Eugene Hyland Re-gram: @tracykahn, @_dan.walker, @emo_east, @ewanmceoin

20.01.2022 In this next instalment of Depth of Field: Indigenous Photographers we take a look at the work of Ricky Maynard: Ricky Maynard is a descendant of the Big River and Ben Lomond peoples of Tasmania. Maynard began to photograph in 1969, at the age of sixteen, drawn to possibility that the camera could create weapons of a subtle resistance to a triumphalist and deceitful history. Wik Elder, Gladys is one of six large-scale portraits of Wik Elders from the Returning to Places ...that Name Us series, 2000, which Maynard created on a six-week visit to their community of Aurukun in Western Cape York, northern Queensland. The portraits are the result of gaining the sitters trust and getting to know them, a methodology pivotal to Maynards practice, which is a deliberate reversal of ethnographic and historic photography of Aboriginal people in Australia. The highly dramatic portraits invite empathy and give power to the Wik peoples successful struggle for native title. Wik Elder, Gladys is a close-cropped portrait of an Indigenous woman, whose face fills the entire frame and who stares gently but defiantly into the camera. The subject is the fearless native title advocate Gladys Tybingoompa who memorably danced outside the High Court in Canberra after the court ruled in favour of the Wik native title claim in 1996. This work was generously gifted by Milton and Penny Harris. #NGVEveryDay Ricky Maynard Wik Elder, Gladys 2000 from the Returning to places that name us series 2000 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Milton and Penny Harris, 2007 Ricky Maynard/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia

19.01.2022 It's the last chance to boogie in your lounge room with NGV Friday Nights In. This week features DJ Claire Knight (@ck.dj). She knows how to start a party, so prepare to let loose to her dance floor-inspired set peppered with indie, pop, hip hop and punk from Australia and beyond. #NGVEveryDay #SeeAustralia *Please note, this segment was filmed prior to Stage 4 restrictions.

17.01.2022 Deep dive into the world of wabi-sabi through Japanese ceramics and kimono with NGV Senior Curator Wayne Crothers. #NGVEveryDay

17.01.2022 Rediscovered in recent years as French scholars and museums seek to restore the contributions of female artists to the history of French art, Louise Bouteillers Césarine de Houdetot, Baronne de Barante reading Paul et Virginie is an important portrait from the French Romantic period. Learn more about this work with Ted Gott, NGV Senior Curator of International Art and click here to see it on display with our virtual tour of the Salon Gallery --> https://fal.cn/3ayHM #NGVE...veryDay Louise Bouteiller Césarine de Houdetot, Baronne de Barante, reading Paul et Virginie 1818 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased with funds donated by Peter and Anne Greenham, Ross Adler AC and Fiona Adler, Alan and Mavourneen Cowen, donors to the 2017 NGV Foundation Annual Dinner and 2017 NGV Annual Appeal, with framing support from Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM, 2018 See more

16.01.2022 INTRODUCING NGV CONTEMPORARY: We are very grateful that the Victorian Government has announced its exceptional commitment to fund the construction of Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, NGV Contemporary. This new purpose-built gallery is funded as part of the first phase of the Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation project, which will reshape and connect the precinct, and its many creative institutions and venues, with a new 18,000 sq/m public garden.... Located at 77 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, NGV Contemporary will feature 10,000 sq/m of exhibition space dedicated to displaying nationally and internationally significant contemporary art and design. Visit our website for more information about NGV Contemporary. https://fal.cn/3bNfH Victoria Together Creative Victoria Visit Melbourne Australia.com #NGVContemporary #NGV #melbourne #visitvictoria #visitmelbourne #seeaustralia #victoriatogether #art #design #architecture

16.01.2022 Applications are now open for Blak Design, an exciting new initiative from the Koorie Heritage Trust (KHT) to support First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, craftspeople and designers living in Victoria through a professional development and mentoring program. An Australian first, this program is designed to take your creative design practice to the next level. Each year, Blak Design will focus on a different design discipline, providing mentoring in de...sign, production, and small business skills to nurture long-term sustainable indigenous design practices. In 2020 the spotlight is on supporting First Nations contemporary jewellery design practices through the Blak Design: KHT Jewellery Program --> https://fal.cn/3alkw #KoorieHeritageTrust #IanPotterFoundation #KoorieDesign #KoorieArt #blakdesign @rmit_art @rmituniversity Maree Clarke, Necklace with large black, gold and organic kangaroo teeth from the Thung-ung Coorang (Kangaroo Tooth Necklace) jewellery collection (detail), 2018, NGV design store Commission 2018

15.01.2022 How many varieties of fruits and flowers can you identify in this work by Dutch painter Leopold Stoll? Comment below. #NGVEveryDay Leopold Stoll ... Flowerpiece 1837 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1956 See more

14.01.2022 Anamnesis is a work by Matt McLean, a 2019 VCE student selected to display his work in the NGVs Top Arts 2020 exhibition. Anamnesis tells a story of the artists grandfather, Norman, who has Alzheimers disease. The work explores the multifaceted and fragile nature of memory, as well as the impact that loss of memory has on a person and their family. In this portrait, three emotions pride, sorrow and bliss are captured to communicate the different emotional states No...rman can experience in a single conversation. The portrait is rendered in graphite pencil on tan paper, using meticulous mark-making to capture the sitters personality and the familys experience. Applications for Top Arts 2021 are now open. Click Top Arts 2021 Applications via link in bio. #DementiaActionWeek #NGVTopArts #WorldAlzheimersDay #NGVEveryDay Matt McLean Anamnesis 2019 Padua College, Mornington Matt McLean

14.01.2022 NEW ACQUISITION: A rare, large-scale oil on canvas by Australian artist Iso Rae has recently joined the NGV Collection. Born in Melbourne on 18 August 1860, Iso Rae attended the National Gallery of Victoria Art School between 1877 and 1887. In August 1887, together with her mother and sister Alison, Rae left Australia and settled in Paris. In the summer of 1888, the family travelled to Étaples, a popular seaside destination for artists. In 1893 they settled there permanen...tly, and Rae became an active member of the large expatriate artist community. She exhibited regularly and her painting Pierrot was one of the first works by an Australian artist to be acquired by a French institution purchased by the Musée Quentovic in Étaples in 1892. Painted c.1893 Young Girl, Étaples is characteristic of Raes work, with its large-scale figure and high horizon line. It has been speculated that the subject of this work may have been the child of a friend. An inscribed portrait watercolour miniature of the same child remained in the artists family until Raes death in 1940. Despite a charming sense of intimacy, the substantial scale of Young Girl, Étaples lends an unusual, monumental quality to this subject. This important acquisition was purchased for the NGV Collection through the generosity of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family, Professor Graham Peirson and Christine Peirson and the Norma Atwell Bequest. #NGVEveryDay Iso Rae Young girl, Étaples c.1892 (detail)

14.01.2022 To all the dads out there, happy Fathers Day. #NGVEveryDay #FathersDay ... Jan Saudek Another child, David is born - I embrace him 1965-1975 from the Story from Czechoslovakia, my country series 1965-75 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1977 Jan Saudek See more

13.01.2022 In this weeks edition of NGV Depth of Field: Indigenous Photographers, we explore the work of Michael Riley: Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Michael Riley was an outstanding photographer and filmmaker whose iconic works challenged non-Indigenous perceptions of Indigenous experience in Australia. Flyblown, 1999 is a conceptual photographic series based on beauty and decay in the Australian landscape, notable for its recurring motifs of the dead galah and cloud-reflecting cross. ... Cloud, 2000, Rileys last and most acclaimed photographic series, was the first body of work he conceived in a digital medium, as Riley states: Cloud was quite a resolved exhibition for me, in that it brought all elements together: my childhood, the Christianity from my childhood, the problems with that, and also histories of Aboriginal people. Untitled (cow), from Cloud, is a surreal image of a Hereford cow floating in a cloud, which has disturbing connotations as Riley explained: I tried to make connections by showing something like the cow floating in an ethereal sort of sky a strange animal to Aboriginal people, yet its also an animal Aboriginal people would kill when food supplies were running out. Aboriginal people would actually be shot or hunted down for doing these things, for trying to survive, themselves. #NGVEveryDay Michael Riley Untitled 1998 from the Flyblown series 1998 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased NGV Foundation, 2008 Michael Riley/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia Michael Riley Untitled 1998 from the Flyblown series 1998 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased NGV Foundation, 2008 Michael Riley/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia Michael Riley Untitled (cow) 2000 From the cloud series National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased with funds donated by Linda Herd and donors to the 2020 NGV Annual Appeal Michael Riley Foundation. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia

12.01.2022 Located at 77 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, NGV Contemporary will be dedicated to showcasing contemporary art, design, fashion and architecture of local, national and international significance in the heart of the transformed Melbourne Arts Precinct. Once completed, the gallery will span more than 30,000 sq/m, making it the largest public gallery of contemporary art and design in Australia and enhancing Melbourne’s global reputation as a thriving and dynamic destination for... art, design and architecture. The biggest cultural infrastructure project in Australia will transform Melbourne’s creative precinct attracting visitors, creating jobs and establishing vibrant new gardens and creative space in the heart of our city. Victoria Together Creative Victoria Visit Melbourne Australia.com Arts Centre Melbourne #NGVContemporary #NGV #melbourne #visitvictoria #visitmelbourne #seeaustralia #victoriatogether #art #design #architecture

11.01.2022 To all the teachers out there, thank you for your tireless efforts today and every day. You can now book private sessions for our free online professional learning programs. Suitable for teachers of all levels and subjects, the programs are designed to help you engage with art and design, connect with colleagues and develop practical ideas to enhance teaching and learning. To learn more about our public and private sessions --> https://fal.cn/3ajPP #NGVEveryDay ... Grace CROWLEY Portrait (1939) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Bequest of the artist, 1981 The Artist See more

11.01.2022 JUST ANNOUNCED: Melbourne NOW returns for a second edition in 2023. This exhibition will celebrate new and ambitious local art and design, crossing a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion, jewellery, painting, architecture, sculpture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing. NGV is also proud to announce a pledge of $1.5 million to acquire, commission and present these new works by local Victorian artists, designers and architects. Melbourne Now will be on display throughout all levels of NGV Australia, Fed Square and will mark the 10-year anniversary of the inaugural 2013 exhibition. We look forward to welcoming you to a bold and unprecedented survey of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. #NGVEveryDay #MelbourneNow

10.01.2022 Miss the experience of visiting the NGV? Our series of 14 virtual self-guided tours allows you to experience NGV exhibitions from home. Follow this link to take our latest virtual tour of the 19th Century Gallery at NGV Australia, Fed Square --> https://fal.cn/3a8Mt We look forward to welcoming everyone back to the Gallery soon. #NGVEveryDay... With thanks to Major Partner Macquarie Group (@MacquarieGroup). See more

10.01.2022 This outfit by Australian fashion label @romancewasborn puts a spring in our step. In 2015, Romance Was Born showed their Bush Magic collection in the Great Hall at the NGV for @melbfashionfestival. A perfect fit for #FashionFriday, this dress highlights Romance Was Borns continued interest in the Australian landscape, flora and fauna as a source of inspiration. The embellishments include stylised red gum blossoms, bright green eucalyptus leaves, yellow wattle, bottle bru...sh flora and beige and brown banksia men and gumnut babies in the manner of Australian illustrator May Gibbs and her loveable characters Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and the Australian bush. Tag a friend who would love this look. #NGVEveryDay Romance Was Born, Sydney (fashion house) Anna Plunkett (designer) Luke Sales (designer) Bush magic dress and gumnut cap 2015 {autumn-winter, Bush Magic collection} National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015 Romance Was Born

10.01.2022 #TBT: Two complementary exhibitions that explored Australias complex colonial past and the art that emerged during and in response to this period. Presented concurrently, the two exhibitions, Colony: Australia 17701861 and Colony: Frontier Wars, offer two parallel experiences of the settlement of Australia. Learn more about this exhibition --> https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/colony-frontier-wars/ #NGVEveryDay... With thanks to Major Partner Deakin University @deakinuniversity Media Partner The Age @theageaustralia Supported by Creative Victoria @creative_vic See more

08.01.2022 Friday Nights In: Tune in from your lounge room to DJ Claire Knight and prepare to let loose to her dance floor-inspired set peppered with indie, pop, hip hop and punk from Australia and beyond. Tune into our Facebook page at 7pm tonight --> https://fal.cn/3afuj If you missed any of the previous sets, follow the link in bio to watch past recordings on NGV Channel. ... #NGVEveryDay *Please note, this segment was filmed prior to Stage 4 restrictions.

08.01.2022 Need a new it bag? Have a look at some of our recent acquisitions At the height of 1990s logomania, Moschino released a series of handbags that parodied the trend for expensive designer accessories. Among them was this Antica Pasticceria pastry box bag (c.1991), a witty take on the expression let them eat cake, frequently misattributed to Marie Antoinette. Equally absurdist is Chanels extra-large Hula hoop bag (2013). While Maison Margielas rare Helmet bag (2006)..., made from an actual black motorcycle helmet, highlights the designers conceptual approach and interest in deconstructing notions of value in fashion. Scroll through for a few more amazing handbags in our Collection. #NGVEveryDay #FashionFriday Saddle bag 2000 CHRISTIAN DIOR, Paris (fashion house) John GALLIANO (designer) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 2002 Christian Dior Couture Hula hoop bag 2013 (spring-summer) CHANEL, Paris (fashion house) Karl LAGERFELD (designer) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased with funds donated by the Bertocchi family, 2017 Courtesy of Chanel, Paris Do not disturb, handbag 2019 DOLCE & GABBANA, Italy (fashion house) Domenico DOLCE (designer) Stefano GABBANA (designer) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2019 Helmet bag, 2006 Maison Margiela, Paris (fashion house) Martin Margiela (designer) National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and the Campbell-Pretty Family through the Cultural Gifts Program, 2020 Photo by: Amélie Blondel - Art Digital Studio / Sothebys Moschino, Italy (fashion house) Franco Moschino (designer) Antica Pasticceria pastry box bag c.1991 National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Purchased with funds donated by the Bertocchi family, 2020 Photo courtesy of Evolution vintage, photographer Annette Navarro

08.01.2022 Each week we are taking a closer look at the photography of an artist in the NGV Collection through a series entitled Depth of Field: Indigenous Photographers. Michael Cooks Majority Rule series, like much of his work, ruminates on the impact of colonialism: the subjugation and racism that results from the fact that the majority always has the rule and the minority doesnt. In these meticulously staged, architectonic photographic tableaux, set in 1930s40s Australian capital... cities, Cook invites the viewer to speculate on what Australia would be like if Aboriginal people comprised 96 per cent of the population and white people the remaining four per cent. He thereby conjures up a number of dramatic role reversals in a very different Australia from the one we currently inhabit. The repeated image of an immaculately dressed Indigenous man subverts the expectation of viewers accustomed to seeing no such faces on city streets or occupying positions of power and influence, at the High Court or in the Senate. Cooks Majority Rule (Tunnel) is located in a tiled underground passageway, a quotidian space customarily packed with jostling commuters, rushing to and from work. It is a society of conformity, in which individuals, isolated from each other and frozen in time, stare towards the viewer, as if trapped in a mechanised pattern of existence. The work parallels John Bracks Collins Street at 5pm, except that Indigenous men have reclaimed this urban site from the colonisers. #NGVEveryDay Michael Cook Senate 2014 no. 5 from the Majority Rule series 2014 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Yvonne Pettengell Bequest, 2014 Courtesy of the artist Michael Cook Tunnel 2014 no. 2 from the Majority Rule series 2014 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Yvonne Pettengell Bequest, 2014 Courtesy of the artist Michael Cook Court 2014 no. 7 from the Majority Rule series 2014 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Yvonne Pettengell Bequest, 2014 Courtesy of the artist

06.01.2022 Art has the power to bring us together, to spark joy, and to make us feel less alone. Works like this one remind us that companionship comes in many forms. From an enthusiastic dog to a friendly neighbour, we all need connection now more than ever. Tag a friend or family member you are thinking of today. #NGVEveryDay #RUOkayDay ... Rebecca Ann Hobbs Complex social groups 2001 from the Suck roar series 2001 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased with funds arranged by Loti Smorgon for Contemporary Australian Photography, 2005 Rebecca Ann Hobbs

06.01.2022 Bravo to those of you who have kept the creativity going during lockdown 2.0. We gathered a few more #BetweenArtAndQuarantine submissions that were too good not to share. Enjoy! #NGVEveryDay #museumathome #ABCMelbMasterpiece #betweenartandquarantine Re-gram: @eileen_mary1, @rosey3186, @gentownsend.artist, @archie.brittany.adventures, @eleanorvee, @els_cook, @theloopycat

05.01.2022 Women are the artist, the subject or the author of many stories in our Collection. In this series of reflections and audio recordings by NGV writers, entitled Her Story, we celebrate some of the artworks in the NGV Collection created by female artists, and learn from their achievements and unique challenges. We also reconsider the historical portrayal of women depicted in art, whose lived experiences and real accomplishments have often been overlooked or undervalued. NGV Int...ernational --> https://fal.cn/3acGm NGV Australia --> https://fal.cn/3acGl #NGVEveryDay Constance L. Jenkins Friendly critics 1907 (detail) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Presented by the artist under the terms of the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship, 1915 The Estate of Constance L. Jenkins Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Mademoiselle de Brionne, as Diana c. 1775 (detail) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Presented by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty and the Campbell-Pretty Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2017 Seulgi Lee U Lick the watermelon (Rush job) 2014 from the U series National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased NGV Foundation, 2016 Seulgi Lee Ruth Hollick Miss Pamela Ann McKewan (c. 1929) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Mrs Lucy Crosbie Morrison, 1992 Lily Karadada Wanjina 1990 (detail) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of The Marjory and Alexander Lynch Endowment, Governors, 1990 Lily Karadada (Mindindil)/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia Annie Beal Gothic chair 1907 Black Bean (Castanospermum australe) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Josephine Kenrick, 1985

05.01.2022 How did the European fascination with ostrich eggs as decorative items translate to emu eggs in Australia? Take a tour of Australian gold and silver smithing with NGV Senior Curator David Hurlston. #NGVEveryDay

05.01.2022 Ever wanted to have the whole Gallery to yourself to explore? Our latest virtual tour of the seventeenth and eighteenth century British and European galleries is now available to visit online. See some of the most beloved artworks in the NGV Collection like Tiepolos The banquet of Cleopatra and many more. Explore the virtual tour here --> https://fal.cn/3apVs #NGVEveryDay... Bernardo Bellotto Grand Canal looking north-east to the Rialto Bridge c. 1738 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1919 Giambattista Tiepolo The Finding of Moses 17401745 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1959 Richard Wilson Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle c. 17601763 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1949 Canaletto Bacino di S. Marco: From the Piazzetta c. 1750 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1986 Public Domain Giambattista Tiepolo The Banquet of Cleopatra 17431744 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1933

03.01.2022 Did you have the chance to explore our Collecting Comme exhibition in person? For a full-length guided tour with NGV Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles Dani Whitfield --> https://fal.cn/3afDX Thanks to the generosity of donor Takamasa Takahashi, Collecting Comme examines the radical concepts and design methods that have informed the practice of visionary fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons. #NGVEveryDay #FashionFriday

03.01.2022 This mens suit by New Zealand label, WORLD made its runway debut at Australian Fashion Week in 1997. In a deliberate departure from convention, the designers used floral Sanderson fabric a material commonly used for curtains or soft furnishings to comment on historically restrictive and gendered menswear traditions. #NGVEveryDay #FashionFriday Sanderson suit... 1997 (World International collection, spring-summer 1997-98) World, Auckland (fashion house) Denise L'Estrange-Corbet (designer) Francis Hooper (designer) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased NGV Foundation, 2009 See more

02.01.2022 Create, draw and play during these school holidays with our free online events and downloadable activities and games made especially for children and families. To view activities and events for kids of all ages --> https://fal.cn/3aol5 #NGVEveryDay #LearnFromHome #NGVKids #NGVTeens... The NGV Kids program is generously supported by The Truby and Florence Williams Charitable Trust, managed by Equity Trustees, and Official Supplier Canson Australia. The NGV gratefully acknowledges the Packer Family and Crown Resorts Foundations for their support of NGV learning resources.

02.01.2022 Following the latest public health directions from the Victorian Government, the NGV will temporarily close to the public from Thursday 9 July, 2020. From all of our team at the NGV, were sending our very best wishes to our community and appreciate your understanding. Please take care and keep following #NGVEveryDay for updates and daily stories from the NGV.