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    Emily Kam Kngwarray

    By Kelli Cole

  • Bedroom Nocturne: When Intricacy Meets Intimacy

  • Indigenous Arts Leadership Program

  • National Gallery building facade lit up by video projections

    Enlightening the National Gallery

  • Large scale installation - black wall background with brigth multi-coloured fluorescent lights

    Collecting the artistic voices of Indonesia

    By Carol Cains

  • 40 Years of Collecting

  • Wide gallery space, white walls featuring a plinth in the centre with bright, glittering mardi gras costumes and behind it a poster wall

    Don't Leave Me This Way

    By Keren Nicholson

  • 40 years of the National Gallery: Nick Mitzevich

    By Nick Mitzevich

  • A photograph from the 1980s shows a group of people on stools, sitting in front of Jackson Pollock's Blue poles, with a guide discussing the work.

    Forty years of guiding

    By Kerin Cox

  • Digital Young Writers Mentorship Program

    Kara Walker’s Monument

    By Jade Irvine

  • Man in an art workshop using a large paint roller to press paint ink on stone
    The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    Buy the Whole Damn Thing: The Tyler Collection

    By David Greenhalgh

  • 40 Acquisitions for 40 Years

  • Photo of conservator working with a bark painting
    Behind the Scenes

    Conserving bark paintings

    By Beata Tworek-Matuszkiewicz

  • A black tall sculpture is held together with a specially designed scaffold system
    Behind the Scenes

    How to fly Brancusi's Birds

  • Contemporary Australian Architects Speaker Series

  • An artist's studio with works on paper pinned to the wall and tables of mixed media. An artist is working in the background with gloves handling clay.

    Kara Walker

    By Sally Foster

  • Two women stand looking at a wall hung with prints and paintings of various sizes.
    Know My Name

    Know My Name: A new chapter

    By Julie Ewington

  • Brutal Beauty

  • Behind the Scenes

    Old people’s home: keep on rolling

    By Kim Goldsmith

  • PLACE

    By Bruce Johnson Mclean

  • Find favourites

  • Influencing a national collection

    By Lucina Ward

  • Cressida Campbell: in her own words

    By Cressida Campbell

  • A work of contemporary sculpture with multiple colours and shapes in a clump on top of a tall white stand in a gallery space

    Are you the subject or the object?

    By Marian Tubbs

  • It’s complicated

    By Gary Carsley

  • The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    Curator's Top 6

    By David Greenhalgh

  • Behind the scenes de-installation of the The Aboriginal Memorial at the National Gallery of Australia
    First Nations

    Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds

    By Beata Tworek-Matuszkiewicz

  • Three men standing among a Bruce, Djon and Nick hollow log coffins from central Arnhem Land
    First Nations

    The Aboriginal Memorial

  • A black and white image of two men sitting around a rectangular table with crockery and food, and a brick wall behind them
    The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    Public art, private lives: Rauschenberg & Johns

    By David Greenhalgh

  • Abstract print in blue, green, white and tan inks with '2A' written in pencil in centre
    The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    Transparency and noise: Sonnier’s screenprints

    By David Greenhalgh

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