Venice and the Islamic World 828 – 1795
Join us for an evening of cocktails and culture! Discover the vibrant cross-cultural exchange between Venice and the Islamic world. Join Dr Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia as he discusses the art which entered Venice from Islamic countries.
Based on Venice and the Islamic World, a landmark exhibition curated by Dr Carboni for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in 2006–07, this lecture is part of the popular NGV Women’s Association event schedule.
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Opening 13 February, the National Gallery of Victoria will showcase a beautiful collection of prints and drawings in Love, Loss & Intimacy.
This enchanting exhibition will explore the human emotions of desire, grief and affection, which tie the observer to the observed.
Drawn from the NGV Collection, Love, Loss & Intimacy will feature over sixty prints and drawings ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, including works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Munch, David Hockney, Joy Hester and Vernon Ah Kee among others. A selection of paintings, sculpture and media works will also be on display.
Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director, NGV said: “Opening just in time for Valentine’s Day, this fascinating exhibition from our collection of prints and drawings will reveal some of the greatest stories of love, desire and loss. This charming exhibition is certainly one for the romantic at heart!”
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NEW010 is a little bit NEWER
PRESENTED BY THE BALNAVES FOUNDATION
For the past eight years ACCA has offered six/seven promising Australian artists the opportunity to make a new work and have it shown in the annual NEW exhibition. Next year NEW010 will shake things up a bit.
ACCA’s curatorial team has joined with prominent Melbourne architectural and interior design company NEXUS Designs to recreate, re-vision and refresh the exhibition galleries. The designers have turned the space into seven individual sites, each with their own new intervention –plinths have been introduced, walls cut into and ceilings expanded.
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The National Gallery of Victoria today opened a new dedicated children’s gallery at Federation Square. NGV Kids corner is a space
where children and their families can enjoy creative installations and activities designed just for them.
Frances Lindsay, NGV Deputy Director said NGV Kids corner provides an enriching and magical place for children to engage with real art works in an educational and entertaining setting.
NGV Kids corner exhibits selected art works from across the NGV Collection, with the first display
focusing on a video work by Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa, Going Places Sitting Down. The display will
change every six months.
Made within the intimate world of his own apartment, Hiraki Sawa’s enchanting video work shows
various domestic scenes animated by the appearance of an antique rocking horse, whose rhythmic
movements slowly and purposefully propel him through the space.
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Love and rejection, acceptance and intolerance… plus ‘9-up’ in ten minute bites!
Seventy-something playwright Bryan Niland’s “Somewhere over the Rainbow” is directed by famed director Aarne Neeme and stars Ted Crosby and Leah Etkind. The play portrays the struggle that erupts between characters whose values and ambitions are no longer cohesive. The turbulence of the relationship in this play is underscored by it taking place high up on a cliff top over looking a stormy ocean on a cold wild day. Both characters have abandoned lucrative positions to pursue their dreams of living as successful artists but are still struggling after many years. Now one character wants to move on because she no longer believes idealism can underpin a life. How will their conflict be resolved?
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In January 2010, the National Gallery of Victoria will present a major exhibition of the work of
internationally renowned sculptor Ron Mueck.
Known for his extraordinarily life‐like creations, this exhibition will feature twelve sculptures by Mueck including four new works.
This will be the largest and most comprehensive Mueck exhibition ever to be held in Australia.
Frances Lindsay, NGV Deputy Director, said: “Since his dramatic entry onto the international art stage,
Mueck has continued to astound audiences with his realistic, figurative sculptures and now
occupies a unique and important place in the field of international contemporary art.”
David Hurlston, Curator Australian Art, said Ron Mueck’s poignant sculptures illustrate timeless human
conditions from birth to demise.
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To all friends and art lovers, this is a personal invite for you to join us at this great Gallery night with a twist of burlesque;
Host: The Elk ” Gallery ” Nights and Dsvision.net
Type: Music/arts - Exhibit
Start Time: Thursday, 03 December 2009 at 19:30
End Time: Friday, 04 December 2009 at 01:00
Location: The Elk
Street: 23 Darlinghurst Road
Town/City: Sydney, Australia
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Dsvision.net Proudly Presents another Elk Gallery Night
Inviting you to the one and only “Walls of Rebec”
…Come and enjoy an early Christmas celebration with great poster art and burlesque acts that will tickle your eyebrows and make you feel gooey warm inside. You will experience a great collection of art from over 10 years that has graced the street press, posters and flyers for a lot of the music and burlesque scene…
Featuring the works of: “Paul Rebec”
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