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  • Abstract view of a sunset with pink and purple hues
    Essay

    Clarice Beckett

    By Deirdre Cannon

  • A sketch of a woman in a woven hat
    Essay

    Colour, rhythm, and spirit

    By Alice Rezende

  • A young person stands in their studio surrounded by colourful items of clothing they have made
    Studio Visit

    Jordan Gogos

    By Benjamin Judd, Broadsheet Content Partnership

  • A woman sits drapped over a large round object in a busy studio.
    Studio Visit

    Lindy Lee

    By Angela Saurine, Broadsheet Content Partnership

  • Essay

    Olive Cotton: Resisting definition

    By Shaune Lakin

  • A photogram translated into a screenprint depicting two ghostly hands, alongside other ambiguous outlines, such as eggs, an ashtray and lace material.
    Feature

    Evidence of an absence: Man Ray at Gemini

    By David Greenhalgh

  • Feature

    The Seed and the Flower

    By Kelli Cole, Hetti Perkins

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

    Yan Bani / Always Here

    By Tina Baum

  • A picture of three bronze sculptures of Cambodian deities
    Article

    Right of return: Cambodia

    By National Gallery

  • Essay

    Grace and force

    By Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax

  • Print of children wearing green and black playing tug of war
    Article

    Prints, pigments & poison

    By Andrea Wise

  • Colour Cibachrome photograph of a man and a woman, with the woman's arms around his neck smiling.
    Essay

    Nan Goldin’s lens on relationships

    By Anne O'Hehir

  • white and blue painting of a European graveyard with multicoloured native animals and a group of indigenous peoples around a campfire
    Photo Essay

    Artists' Artists: Danie Mellor

    By Danie Mellor

  • Photograph of artist Alick Tipoti standing on a beach on Badhu Island, in the Zenadth Kes/Torres Straits at sunset with other members of his community is ceremony dresss
    Photo Essay

    Alick Tipoti: A contemporary approach to storytelling in art

    By Alick Tipoti

  • Detail of artist's work.
    Feature

    Haegue Yang: Changing From From To From

    By National Gallery

  • Coloured photograph of hands holding a detail of the Givenchy label on a blue cocktail dress
    Photo Essay

    Conserving Givenchy

    By Micheline Ford

  • Photo Essay

    Artists' Artists: Huma Bhabha

    By Huma Bhabha

  • Portrait of Alysha Redston, Conservator, Time Based Media standing in front of Rebecca Horn's Les Amants [The lovers] 1991
    Q&A

    Meet a conservator

    By National Gallery

  • A picture of painted ceremonial poles
    Feature

    A Long Journey

    By Mr. Waṉambi

  • The artist Ellsworth Kelly looking on a wall of colourful paper pulp artworks from his Colored Paper Images series.
    Essay

    Bending the rules: Ellsworth Kelly's Colored Paper Images

    By David Greenhalgh

  • Black and white photograph of The Commonwealth Art Advisory Board c. 1958 Standing left to right: Robert Campbell, Sir Daryl Lindsay, Bill Cumming, Douglas Pratt, Sir William Dargie, Seated: Sir William Ashton (Chairman), Valda Leehy (Secretary) Photo: courtesy Jean Campbell, Canberra
    Feature

    Note the quiet achiever

    By Ellen Newton

  • A limestone carved sculptured of people worshipping a diety
    Article

    Right of return: India

    By National Gallery

  • Article

    Right of return: New Zealand

    By National Gallery

  • Article

    Right of return: Pakistan

    By National Gallery

  • Senior Curator Grace Vele with NMAG staff cataloguing the objects into the NMAG collection.
    Article

    Right of return: Papua New Guinea

    By Crispin Howarth

  • Article

    The right of return

    By Ian McDonald

  • Image of painting with mustard oval shape on a black background
    Young Writers

    The National Connection

    By Jade Irvine

  • Young Writers

    Patricia Piccinini: the wonder & absurdity of evolution

    By Ianni Huang

  • Q&A

    Self‑portraits of my feelings

    By Tracey Emin, Jennifer Higgie

  • Feature

    Daily Rituals

    By Griselda Pollock

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