Arts
Brett Whiteley: Art, life and the other thing by Ashleigh Wilson
by Simon Caterson •
Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan
by Jane Grant •
Rendez-vous with Art by Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford
by Patrick McCaughey •
Masterpieces from the Hermitage: the Legacy of Catherine the Great (NGV International)
by Grazia Gunn •
14 August 2015
Eight galleries of NGV International have been radically reshaped to host Masterpieces from the Hermitage, invoking the world of unbounded opulence of Russia’s Catherine the Great (1729–96). The installation, designed by the NGV’s Ingrid Ruhle, is dazzling, mimicking as it does the grand style of the State Hermitage Museum and incorporating some ...
Awakening: Four Lives in Art by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller
by Ann-Marie Priest •
Every student of Australian art knows that when Arthur Boyd went to London in 1959 and paid his first visit to the National Gallery, two paintings laid siege to his imagination. Titian’s The Death of Actaeon was one from which came Boyd’s tormented
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