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2000s Exhibitions

  • Exhibition

    Monsoon
    Brian Brake's 1960 photo-essay on India

    Model layout of exhibitions with hands adjusting the location of works of art

    11 Sep 1999 – 9 Jan 2000

  • Exhibition

    Chihuly
    Masterworks in Glass

    24 Sep 1999—26 Jan 2000

  • Exhibition

    DOG

    Sculpture of six dingoes

    2 Oct 1999 – 9 Apr 2000

  • Exhibition

    Hockney Masterworks in Paint / Stella & Tyler Masterworks in Print

    Model layout of exhibitions with hands adjusting the location of works of art

    14 Oct 1999—26 Jan 2000

  • Exhibition

    The Antipodeans
    Challenge and Response in Australian Art 1955–1965

    27 Nov 1999 – 5 Mar 2000

  • Exhibition

    The Universal Soldier
    John Walker's Passing Bells

    An etching of a figure with a beak like head

    22 Jan 2000—30 Apr 2000

  • Exhibition

    Revealing the Holy Land
    The Photographic Exploration of Palestine

    Model layout of exhibitions with hands adjusting the location of works of art

    25 Feb 2000 – 7 May 2000

  • Exhibition

    The Book of Kells & The Art of Illumination

    25 Feb 2000—7 May 2000

  • Exhibition

    Keeping Culture

    25 Mar 2000—27 Jul 2000

  • Exhibition

    Eye Spy

    14 Apr 2000—30 Jul 2000

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    Secession
    Modern Art in Austria and Germany, 1890s–1920s

    A six piece golden tea service

    6 May 2000—6 Aug 2000

  • Exhibition

    Inside Out
    New Chinese Art

    Model layout of exhibitions with hands adjusting the location of works of art

    3 Jun 2000 – 13 Aug 2000

  • Exhibition

    Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds
    World of Dreamings

    Photographic series of staged tableaus

    8 Jun 2000—8 Nov 2000

  • Exhibition

    Uncommon World
    Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art

    A punching bag with floral lead filigree

    15 Jul 2000 – 22 Oct 2000

  • Exhibition

    Armidale '42
    Memory and Imagination

    4 Aug 2000 – 1 Oct 2000

  • Exhibition

    Going to Extremes
    George Silk, Photojournalist

    Black and white photograph of Pte George Whittington being led to an aid station by Raphael Oimbari

    12 Aug 2000 – 12 Nov 2000

  • Exhibition

    Lost in Space

    A print of two green figures pointing a telescope up at the night sky

    12 Aug 2000—25 Mar 2001

  • Exhibition

    Painting Forever
    Tony Tuckson

    An abstract painting with a blue base, splashes of red, then topped with white.

    4 Nov 2000 – 4 Feb 2001

  • Exhibition

    Federation
    Australian Art and Society 1901–2001

    Ceramic sculpture of koala with joey on its back

    8 Dec 2000 – 11 Feb 2001

  • Exhibition

    Islands in the Sun
    Prints by Indigenous artists of Australia and the Australasia region

    17 Feb 2001—27 May 2001

  • Exhibition

    Monet & Japan

    Two haystacks in a field at midday

    9 Mar 2001—11 Jun 2001

  • Exhibition

    Childhoods Past
    Children's art of the twentieth century

    7 Apr 2001—15 Jul 2001

  • Exhibition

    In Search of the Native
    Photographs by Max Dupain and Eduardo Masferré

    Photograph of three boys. Two are bald but the youngest has curly hair.

    23 Jun 2001 – 4 Nov 2001

  • Exhibition

    Anne Dangar at Moly-Sabata
    Tradition and Innovation

    A drawing of interlocking circles in a rainbow of colours.

    13 Jul 2001 – 28 Oct 2001

  • Exhibition

    Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera & Mexican Modernism
    The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection

    13 Jul 2001—28 Oct 2001

  • Exhibition

    Modern Australian Women
    Paintings and prints 1925–1945

    13 Jul 2001 – 26 Aug 2001

  • Exhibition

    Kids Mapping their World

    28 Jul 2001—4 Nov 2001

  • Exhibition

    Joy Hester & Friends

    Painting of two figures embracing

    1 Sep 2001 – 28 Oct 2001

  • Exhibition

    Intersections & Translations
    New Installations, Wenda Gu

    a large installation made of woven himan hair hangs from the ceiling of a large gallery space

    4 Oct 2001 – 7 Apr 2002

  • Australian Art

    Douglas Annand
    The Art of Life

    Poster showing the top deck of the Orient ship

    6 Oct 2001 – 28 Jan 2002

  • Exhibition

    Seeing Red
    The Art and Science of Infra-red Analysis

    17 Nov 2001—10 Feb 2002

  • Exhibition

    2001 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition

    a patterned ceramic bust of a man

    30 Nov 2001 – 10 Mar 2002

  • Exhibition

    Transparent Things
    Expressions in Glass

    A large green quenelle shaped glass sculpture with horizontal grooves

    1 Dec 2001—30 Nov 2002

  • Exhibition

    Rodin
    A Magnificent Obsession

    14 Dec 2001—24 Feb 2002

  • Exhibition

    William Robinson
    A Retrospective

    Painting of landscape of trees reflecting in a body of water

    14 Dec 2001 – 10 Mar 2002

  • Exhibition

    Material Culture
    Aspects of Contemporary Australian craft and design

    A glass plate with intersecting geometric lines

    9 Feb 2002—30 Jun 2002

  • Exhibition

    Life in the Emperor's Tomb
    The TT Tsui collection of Chinese ceramics

    Ceramic sculpture of saddled horse

    23 Feb 2002 – 21 Jul 2002

  • International Art

    Rough Cuts
    European Figurative Prints from Gauguin to Paladino

    Print of three women conversing

    9 Mar 2002—2 Jun 2002

  • Exhibition

    The Italians
    Three Centuries of Italian Art

    Renaissance painting featuring a marriage scene set in the sky with cherubs in sky

    28 Mar 2002—16 Jun 2002

  • Exhibition

    By Appointment
    Norman Hartnell’s sample for the Coronation dress of Queen Elizabeth II

    A patch of intricate beaded floral embroidery with a sprig of wattle

    1 Jun 2002—30 Jun 2002

  • Exhibition

    Sol LeWitt
    Drawings, Prints and Books 1968–1988

    A square grid of six geometric figures in three colours

    13 Jun 2002—25 Aug 2002

  • Exhibition

    Tales of the Unexpected
    Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art

    Dream like painting of a man walking up the stairs

    13 Jul 2002—22 Sep 2002

  • Exhibition

    Royal Africa
    Kings and Chiefs

    detail of patterned fabric

    3 Aug 2002—12 Jan 2003

  • Exhibition

    Colour + Concept
    International Colour Photography

    A colour photograph of a busy street with cars going by

    7 Sep 2002 – 1 Dec 2002

  • Exhibition

    Jackson Pollock's Blue poles

    A painting consisting of splashes of multi coloured paint with large vertical stripes of dark blue paint.

    4 Oct 2002—27 Jan 2003

  • Exhibition

    Seeing the Centre
    The Art of Albert Namatjira 1902–1959

    Landscape watercolour painting of Australian country with large gum tree on the left

    4 Oct 2002—19 Jan 2003

  • Exhibition

    The Big Americans
    The Art of Collaboration

    A multi-colour painting of four semi-circular arcs arranged in a floral geometric pattern

    4 Oct 2002—27 Jan 2003

  • Exhibition

    Out and About
    The National Gallery tours Australia

    A painting consisting of splashes of multi coloured paint with large vertical stripes of dark blue paint.

    10 Dec 2002—22 Feb 2004

  • Exhibition

    Gary Hill | Bruce Nauman
    International New Media Art

    A neon wall hanging spelling "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths" in a spiral pattern

    14 Dec 2002—21 Apr 2003

  • Exhibition

    The Spread of Time
    The Photography of David Moore

    Black and white photo of eight people looking out over the rails of a ship

    25 Jan 2003 – 25 May 2003

  • Australian Art

    The Good, the Great & the Gifted
    Camera Portraits by Yousuf Karsh and Athol Shmith of Melbourne

    Photo portrait of Vivian Leigh with a white veil and pearl crown

    7 Feb 2003—21 Mar 2004

  • Exhibition

    Pierre Bonnard
    Observing Nature

    Poster depicting a woman in yellow dress holding a champagne coupe overflowing with bubbles

    7 Mar 2003—9 Jun 2003

  • Exhibition

    2003 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition

    Sculpture depicting seven ape heads with moths open as if speaking

    21 Mar 2003 – 9 Jun 2003

  • Exhibition

    In the Box

    28 Mar 2003—10 Aug 2003

  • Exhibition

    First Impressions
    The Early History of Lithography – A Comparative Survey

    Drawing of angel sitting on a rock

    3 May 2003—24 Aug 2003

  • Exhibition

    Tactility
    Two Centuries of Indigenous Objects, Textiles and Fibre

    A large pearl shell engraved with a series of lines coloured with ochre

    7 Jun 2003—14 Sep 2003

  • Exhibition

    Jump!
    Photographers Get Off the Ground

    A photograph of a woman in a white dress diving out of the sky

    23 Aug 2003 – 2 Nov 2003

  • International Art

    After Image
    Screen Prints of Andy Warhol

    A 6x2 grid of images of Mao Zedong in different colourways

    6 Sep 2003—4 Apr 2004

  • Exhibition

    Home Sweet Home
    Works from the Peter Fay collection

    A portrait of a man with a collage of butterflies on top

    11 Oct 2003—18 Jan 2004

  • Exhibition

    French Paintings
    From the Musée Fabre, Montpellier

    Boats floating on a canal with trees on either side

    7 Nov 2003—15 Feb 2004

  • Exhibition

    Hard Edge
    Geometry in Design

    lamp made of mixed materials

    15 Nov 2003—11 Jan 2004

  • Exhibition

    Camera Work
    1903–1917

    New York street scene with a snow-covered tree and street, and two large building in the background

    13 Dec 2003 – 15 Feb 2004

  • Australian Art

    Place Made
    Australian Print Workshop

    Print of Hollyhock flowers in white, pink, and orange

    31 Jan – 11 Apr 2004

  • Exhibition

    Nam June Paik
    A selection from '32 cars for the 20th century play Mozart’s Requiem quietly'

    Model layout of exhibitions with hands adjusting the location of works of art

    7 Feb 2004 – 26 Apr 2004

  • Exhibition

    Grace Cossington Smith
    Retrospective Exhibition

    The interior of a bedroom with bookshelves, Window and Bed;  painted in choppy strokes of yellow, green, blue and red

    3 Mar 2004—13 Jun 2005

  • Exhibition

    The Edwardians
    Secrets and desires

    Reclined woman reading underneath a window

    12 Mar 2004—14 Jun 2004

  • Exhibition

    Making Pictures

    A black, white and grey drawing of a woman and a man in a sculptor's studio

    13 Mar 2004—30 May 2004

  • Exhibition

    Sari to Sarong
    500 years of Indian and Indonesian textile exchange

    A richly patterned textile with a branch motif and floral borders

    2 Apr 2004 – 4 Jul 2004

  • Exhibition

    John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque

    Landscape of large mountain with a body of water at the base, in left foreground a community of indigenous peoples ceremonially dance around a campfire

    23 April – 18 July 2004

  • Exhibition

    From little things big things grow

    Colour photograph of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pouring soil into hand of traditional landowner Vincent Lingiari

    12 Jun 2004—19 Sep 2004

  • Exhibition

    Montien Boonma
    Temple of the mind

    Large sculptural work of stacked wood, brass bells, and medicinal herbs

    23 Jul 2004 – 10 Oct 2004

  • Exhibition

    Sean Scully
    Body of light

    Abstract Painting of two dimensional red, black, white and yellow rectangle and squares

    23 Jul 2004—10 Oct 2004

  • Australian Art

    No ordinary place
    The art of David Malangi

    Indigenous bark painting of central vertical waterlily plant with bulb, leaves and flower surrounded by catfish, tortoise, diver ducks

    31 Jul 2004—7 Nov 2004

  • Exhibition

    Printed Light
    Photographic vision and the modern print

    Print of the front of a diner with multiple multicoloured neon signs

    31 Jul 2004 – 7 Nov 2004

  • Exhibition

    Big Spooks

    a man sinks beneath waves of blue and green

    2 Oct 2004—6 Mar 2005

  • Exhibition

    Vivienne Westwood
    34 Years in Fashion

    Pair of Red stiletto shoes with white flower detailing

    12 Nov 2004—30 Jan 2005

  • Exhibition

    Against the Grain
    The Woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler

    Abstracted woodcut print with blue, yellow, pink, red and white forms

    26 Nov 2004—5 Feb 2005

  • Exhibition

    Surface Beauty
    Photographic Reflections on Glass and China

    Black and white photograph of drinking glasses of different shapes and sizes casting shadows on the table

    11 Dec 2004 – 6 Mar 2005

  • Exhibition

    Margaret Preston: Australian Printmaker

    18 Dec 2004 – 25 Apr 2005

  • International Art

    Colin McCahon

    A black background with white text overlayed spelling I AM

    14 Feb 2005—28 Nov 2005

  • Exhibition

    James Gleeson
    Beyond the screen of sight

    Surrealist Painting of woman figure between block shapes

    18 Mar 2005—13 Jun 2005

  • Exhibition

    FuturePlay
    from the house of tomorrow

    19 Mar 2005—29 May 2005

  • International Art

    An artist abroad
    The prints of James McNeill Whistler

    Black ink drypoint print of a child standing face forward to the screen

    25 Mar 2005—10 Jul 2005

  • Exhibition

    Margaret Michaelis
    Love, loss and photography

    Photograph of two women draped in sheer material posing wistfully

    7 May 2005 – 14 Aug 2005

  • Exhibition

    Stage Fright
    The art of theatre

    Elaborate costume design, inspired by Indian court attire. Blue in colour upon an orange background

    11 Jun 2005—26 Sep 2005

  • Australian Art

    2005 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition

    Five ceiling hung abstract sculptures formed of white starfish shaped pieces

    15 Jul 2005 – 9 Oct 2005

  • Exhibition

    Bill Viola
    The Passions

    26 Jul 2005—6 Nov 2005

  • Exhibition

    Moist
    Australian Watercolours

    Watercolour of small white flowers surrounded by large green leaves

    27 Aug 2005—4 Dec 2005

  • Exhibition

    Imagining Papua New Guinea
    Prints from the National Collection

    Vividly Multicoloured print of Traditional Papua New Guinean human and plant figures forming the shape of a car

    8 Oct 2005 – 12 Mar 2006

  • Exhibition

    Transformations
    The language of craft

    Abstract black and white sculpture with mottled texture

    11 Nov 2005—29 Jan 2006

  • International Art

    The Art of War
    Otto Dix’s 'Der Krieg' cycle

    Black and white etching of five soldiers wearing gas masks in the midst of trench warfare

    17 Dec 2005—30 Apr 2006

  • Exhibition

    Crescent Moon
    Islamic art and civilisation in Southeast Asia

    A red, green and blue tapestry richly embroidered with gold thread forming flowering trees and a pair of bouraq, a mythical winged animal

    24 Feb 2006 – 28 May 2006

  • Exhibition

    Australia and Constable

    Swirling white clouds float above a rolling landscape of green hills and trees

    3 Mar 2006—12 Jun 2006

  • International Art

    Constable
    Impressions of land, sky and sea

    A black and white sketch of a landscape with one building with storm clouds overhead

    3 Mar 2006—12 Jun 2006

  • Exhibition

    Come rain or shine

    oil painting of dark grey clouds blowing a gale over a farmhouse

    24 Mar 2006—16 Jul 2006

  • Exhibition

    Right here, right now
    Recent Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Acquisitions

    Indigenous painting of black and orange vertical forms

    13 May 2006—13 Aug 2006

  • Exhibition

    Welcome to the Water Planet
    Paperworks by James Rosenquist

    A collage of Futuristic, multicoloured spaceship imagery

    10 Jun 2006 – 12 Sep 2006

  • Exhibition

    Imants Tillers
    One World Many Visions

    Painting of mountain landscape with a patchwork effect

    14 Jul 2006—16 Oct 2006

  • Australian Art

    Michael Riley
    Sights Unseen

    Photo of a horizontal white feather on a background of the blue sky

    14 Jul 2006—16 Oct 2006

  • Exhibition

    Abracadabra
    The magic in conservation

    Ultraviolet image revealing locations of repairs and restorations via differing shades of purple light onhorse statue

    28 Jul 2006—26 Nov 2006

  • Exhibition

    The crafted object 60's-80's

    Intricate brooche with animal, leaves, and face forms

    26 Aug 2006—10 Dec 2006

  • Exhibition

    Revolutionary Russians
    Commemorating the centenary of Shostakovich

    Multicoloured print of farmer on rolling hills surrounded by soldiers

    23 Sep 2006—28 Jan 2007

  • Exhibition

    Creeping through the Jungle

    Simplistic print of frog sprawled out, brown ink on cream paper

    9 Dec 2006—1 Apr 2007

  • Exhibition

    Egyptian antiquities from the Louvre:
    Journey to the afterlife

    9 Dec 2006—1 Apr 2007

  • Exhibition

    Grace Crowley:
    Being Modern

    Abstracted view of four sailors and two model painted in mated coloured tones

    23 Dec 2006—6 May 2007

  • Exhibition

    The Birth of the Modern Poster

    Print of a green goblin holding a bottle of alcohol upon a black background. Yellow text underneath reads Maurin Quina

    10 Feb 2007—13 May 2007

  • Exhibition

    The story of Australian printmaking 1801–2005

    Print of two small red, blue and white spotted birds perched upon a two branches

    30 Mar 2007—3 Jun 2007

  • Exhibition

    Tools and techniques of printmaking

    Black and white print of man in front of wire fence looking up at the southern cross

    14 Apr 2007—1 Jul 2007

  • Exhibition

    VIP
    Very Important Photographs

    Photograph of an Indigenous Australian man in traditional dress and two younger children also in traditional clothing

    26 May 2007 – 19 Aug 2007

  • Exhibition

    George W. Lambert Retrospective
    Heroes and Icons

    Painting of two men. One is facing the viewer holding his shirt up to expose his torso. The other sits with his back to the viewer, looking over his shoulder slightly

    29 Jun 2007—16 Sep 2007

  • Exhibition

    Drawn In

    Whimsical pencil drawing of half a lady in clown like costume, drawn from the torso up on a leaning stool

    14 Jul 2007—30 Mar 2008

  • Exhibition

    Ocean to Outback
    Australian landscape paintings 1850-1950

    Impressionist landscape painting of a day at the beach, child in the foreground, a group of people and a sailing boat in the background

    3 Aug 2007—3 May 2009

  • Exhibition

    Robert Rauschenberg
    1967-1978

    Collage with two elephants in the centre, small clock face, pill and fingertip images

    1 Sep 2007—27 Jan 2008

  • Exhibition

    Black Robe, White Mist
    Art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Rengetsu

    Model layout of exhibitions with hands adjusting the location of works of art

    8 Sep 2007 – 27 Jan 2008

  • Exhibition

    Andy and Oz
    Parallel Visions

    The Face of Marilyn Monroe laid upon a image of Van Gogh's Sunflowers

    11 Oct 2007—30 Dec 2007

  • Exhibition

    National Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors

    13 Oct 2007—10 Feb 2008

  • Exhibition

    Australian Surrealism:
    The Agapitos Wilson collection

    Abstract Painting of Roman bust with olive leaf crown in lower left corner, in centre man in suit with grid form in background

    16 Feb 2008 – 11 May 2008

  • Exhibition

    Turner to Monet
    The triumph of landscape

    Impressionist painting of haystacks in a field with trees in the background

    14 Mar 2008—9 Jun 2008

  • Exhibition

    Treescape

    12 Apr 2008—30 Aug 2008

  • Exhibition

    Richard Larter: a retrospective

    Abstract painting with rainbow vertical wavy shapes

    20 Jun 2008—8 Sep 2008

  • Exhibition

    Picture Paradise
    Asia-Pacific Photography 1840s – 1940s

    Black and white photograph of seated man in ornate clothing and crown

    11 Jul 2008 – 28 Sep 2008

  • Exhibition

    Home at last

    Impressionistic painting of the interior of a bedroom painted with short, multicoloured strokes

    13 Sep 2008—8 Mar 2009

  • Exhibition

    Gods, Ghosts, and Men
    Pacific Arts from the National Gallery of Australia

    Traditional Cane mask with wide eyes and mouth, red, blak and  cream coloured cane

    10 Oct 2008 – 11 Jan 2009

  • Exhibition

    Degas
    Master of French Art

    12 Dec 2008—22 Mar 2009

  • Exhibition

    Degas' World
    The Rage for Change

    Print of a brown haired woman holding a small blue bowl of Acid in front of a wavy patterned blue and cream background

    24 Jan 2009—3 May 2009

  • Exhibition

    Misty Moderns
    Australian Tonalists 1915-1950

    21 Feb – 27 April 2009

  • Exhibition

    Silently Stirring

    Two squirrels on a branch, one on all fours and another in an upright position with paws held up to mouth

    21 Mar 2009—8 Jun 2009

  • Exhibition

    Soft Sculpture

    20 multicoloured knitted books in a line

    24 Apr 2009—12 Jul 2009

  • Exhibition

    Reinventions:
    sculpture + assemblage

    Box with vintage items such as an old shoe polish tin, drink can, doll's head and body

    16 May 2009—13 Sep 2009

  • Australian Art

    McCubbin
    Last Impressions 1907-17

    Impressionistic landscape painting with river, horses, small shack and rolling hills

    14 Aug – 1 Nov 2009

  • Exhibition

    Emerging Elders
    Honouring senior Indigenous artists

    Yellow, red and white Indigenous painting

    3 Oct 2009—14 May 2010

  • Exhibition

    Masterpieces from Paris
    Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond

    An impressionistic painting of a night sky over water, with bright yellow stars

    4 Dec 2009—18 Apr 2010

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