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  • Painting of an older man wearing a white shirt green vest and navy blue jacket with a red and white spotted neck tie, standing in front of a textured wall
    Photo Essay

    The Sitters

    By National Gallery

  • Feature

    Remembering Mrs N. Yunupiŋu

    By National Gallery

  • Four people are walking in a large painting storage room, with many paintings hanging in tall wire storage racks
    Feature

    Leading the Way

    By Ian R.T. Colless

  • Black and white print of the words 'clear vision' written backwards
    Article

    Reading, writing and performing clear vision

    By Ruby Rossiter

  • Photograph of Sarah Lucas in front of her sculptures
    In Conversation

    Slipping Through the Veil

    By Peter Johnson

  • Photograph of conservator checking small object with light
    Article

    Inside Vivienne Binns’s Tower of Babel

    By Alysha Redston

  • Colour print of man in the ocean staring longingly at a woman in a swimsuit. Print style reminiscent of traditional Japanese prints
    Feature

    Masami Teraoka & ukiyo-e printmaking

    By Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts

  • Image of Dr Matilda House and Paul Girrawah House in front of a scar tree
    Feature

    Madhan warrugarra wirimbirra gulbalanha

    By Paul Girrawah House

  • Hetti Perkins stands in front of two artworks.
    Essay

    Ceremony Curator's Letter

    By Hetti Perkins

  • Photograph of three children with their father holding a sign stating "Aboriginal Affairs"
    Q&A

    Family Ties

    By Sophie Tedmanson, Hetti Perkins

  • A portrait of Dylan River standing outside.
    Feature

    Dylan River

    By Kelli Cole

  • Two woman in bright hats, jewellery, sunglasses and dresses have their arms around each other, posing for a photograph
    Feature

    Two of a kind

    By Georgina Safe

  • Wooden banner intricately carved with Maori design
    Article

    Stories from the Collection Study Room

    By National Gallery

  • A painting depicting the Mona Lisa on a corrugated iron fence
    Essay

    A life in pictures

    By Deborah Hart, Rebecca Edwards

  • A group of young people stand posed in front of a wall
    Article

    Summer Scholarship

    By Adriane Boag

  • Two men using a pulley system to lower a boxed painting from a tall apartment block
    Feature

    The American Connection

    By Michael Maher

  • Linocut print of child watching the silhouette of other children playing behind a bamboo screen
    Feature

    At the Cutting Edge

    By Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax

  • Photograph of Bruce Beresford and Jeffery Smart in the artist's home
    Article

    Jeffrey and Me

    By Bruce Beresford

  • Blue poles carried by conservators behind a display of Tiffany lamps
    In Conversation

    Blue poles: a new perspective

    By David Wise

  • Photograph portrait of Jonathan Jones
    Studio Visit

    Studio Spotlight: Jonathan Jones

    By Aidan Hartshorn

  • A man seated in a wheelchair in front of a painted canvas
    In Conversation

    Under the Tuscan Sun

    By Michael Maher

  • Photograph of Janet Fieldhouse seated in her studio, working on her ceramic pieces
    Studio Visit

    Janet Fieldhouse

    By Janet Fieldhouse

  • The artist Bert Flugelman standing in front of  Cones - a large-scale sculpture of seven steel cones.
    In Conversation

    National Treasures

    By Deborah Hart, Bert Flugelman

  • Artist Patricia Piccinini sits on a pink couch with a shelf of books in the background.
    Studio Visit

    Patricia Piccinini

    By Will Cox, Broadsheet Content Partnership

  • Essay

    How to make a bomb-shaped sculpture

    By David Greenhalgh

  • Joan Mitchell sits on a stool in front of two large painted canvasses
    Feature

    As the mind sees it

    By David Greenhalgh

  • Photo Essay

    Worldwide

    By Russell Storer

  • a vase of sunflowers on a yellow background
    Photo Essay

    Director’s Top 5

    By Nick Mitzevich

  • A set of three paintings with abstract human figures in hammocks.
    Article

    Francis Bacon’s Triptych

    By Simeran Maxwell

  • Two people examine a sculpture of a woman
    Studio Visit

    In the studio with artist XU ZHEN®

    By National Gallery

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