Date: 2–5pm, Tuesday 22 November Venue: Room 2.02, Sir Roland Wilson Building 120, McCoy Ave, ANU, and online via Zoom. Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/extended-seminar-the-colour-revolution-in-victorian-britain-tickets-453366550557? The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory is pleased […]
An exhibition I’m particularly keen to see is Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum currently at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne until 3 October 2021. Contuining the gallery’s long-standing and fruitful collaboration with the […]
The National Gallery of Victoria reopens on Friday 25 June 2021 with this year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces: French Impressionism. This major exhibition includes over 100 masterworks of French Impressionism from the renowned collection of the Museum […]
The landscape of ideas, explorer artists, the pastoral arcadia of settlers, and the natural wilderness will be surveyed in Not As The Songs Of Other Lands exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University […]
Throughout art history Edgar Degas has been categorised as a nationalist, misogynist and experimental artist. But, is this an accurate portrayal? Considering Degas’s life and work from the streets of Paris to the walls of […]
Enter the world of picture framing through a lecture by British art historian and specialist Lynn Roberts. Although often ignored, picture frames have a huge impact on our viewing and perception of pictures. This fact […]
The nude figure was central to the art of Edgar Degas, and yet frequently the artist’s expansive body of work in this area has been overshadowed by focus on portraits and dancers. Listen in as […]
At today’s preview for the new Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition – Degas: A new vision – the NGV announced that one sculpture in the exhibition will be staying in Melbourne. Degas’s ‘Dancer looking at the sole of her right foot […]
Starting this Sunday there are several floor talk from curators and other experts on aspects of the current ‘Whistler’s Mother’ exhibition at NGV. With his long mane of curly dark hair, monocle, tailored coat and […]
The National Gallery of Victoria has announced that James McNeill Whistler’s portrait of his mother, called “Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1.” 1871, will be the focus of an exhibition at the NGV in 2016. The exhibition, Whistler’s Mother, will […]
