ISSUE 108 | September 2008 | nga.gov.au/Calendar

Picture Paradise
Asia-Pacific photography 1840s —1940s
nga.gov.au/PictureParadise

Closing this Sunday 28 September

Several Picture Paradise public programs and two members’ events are scheduled to take place between 2 and 30 October will go ahead as planned, with some changes. All changes are included in the online calendar: nga.gov.au/Calendar

Mundy's photographic magnum opus:
Rotomahana and the boiling springs of New Zealand
Saturday 27 September 2pm
John B Turner, New Zealand photo-historian, talks about Daniel Louis Mundy's 1860s–70s landscape photography in New Zealand.
Free | Exhibition Galleries

Members' wine tastings
Saturday 27 September 3.30–5 pm
Continuing a year of fine wine in the context of art, the exotic themes in the exhibitions Picture paradise and Gods, ghosts and men inspire tastings that feature wines from around the world.
Free for members; $5 non-members | Members' Lounge

Linnaeus Tripe, British photographer in Asia
Thursday 2 October 12.45pm
Robert Deane, Senior Researcher, examines the contribution of Linnaeus Tripe
to the photographic history of India and Myanmar.
Free | Small Theatre

top image:Baron Raimund von Stillfried   Three women in kimono   c.1876 (detail) in Views and costumes of Japan Hermann Andersen, Stillfried & Andersen, Yokohama 1880 albumem silver photograph, colour dyes   Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, Adelaide

Home at last

until 1 February 2009  | Children’s Gallery | nga.gov.au/HomeAtLast

The exhibition Home at last is encouraging young visitors, to comment and respond to four art works from the national collection. View the works and add your comments here >>

House for a mouse workshop for ages 5–8
September 30 Tuesday 10 am — 12 noon and 2–4 pm
Make dioramas and mini models of homes of the past, present and future inspired by the house models in Home at last with Jo Krabman, Gallery Educator and exhibition curator. Parents/carers welcome
$15; $12 members | Bookings essential | Small Theatre | meet in Gallery foyer

Mad hatters workshop for ages 8–12
October 8 Wednesday 10 am — 12 noon and 2–4 pm
Join artist Teffany Thiedeman and make marvellous hats from fantastic plastic items from around the home inspired by Peter Tully's Le headpiece (1980).
$15; $12 members | Bookings essential | Small Theatre | meet in Gallery foyer

 

Floriade at the NGA
floortalk series | 16 September — 7 October 2008

National Gallery of Australia curators provide insightful talks on the works of art in the national collection that relate to flora.

The empire of plants
Saturday 4 October  2 pm
Gael Newton, Senior Curator, Photography, and curator of Picture paradise, discusses works in the exhibition Picture paradise.
Free | International galleries

Oceania: the sky
Tuesday 7 October  12.45 pm
Christine Dixon, Senior Curator, International Painting and Sculpture, sheds light on this work by Henri Matisse.
Free | International galleries

Symbolism and abstraction
Thursday 9 October  12.45 pm
Dr Anna Gray, Head of Australian Art, focuses on flowers in Edwardian and modernist paintings.
Free | Australian galleries

Claude Monet  Nymphéas [Waterlilies] c.1914-17  (detail) oil on canvas   National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Special event

International art
Exhibitionism: dancing in the gallery
Friday 26, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September
11 am, 12 noon, 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm
Exhibitionism is a site-specific performance that moves throughout the Gallery, revealing unique perspectives on the act of viewing. Exhibitionism has developed from collaboration between a creative team of composers and
Gallery staff with the choreographers and dancers exploring Gallery spaces, responding to works of art on display and reflecting on their personal
experience of looking.
Free | Throughout the Gallery

coming soon
Gods, Ghosts and Men
Pacific arts from the National Gallery of Australia

10 October 2008 — 11 January 2009 | Orde Poynton Gallery and Project Gallery

Gods, Ghosts and men introduces the visitor to the richness and diversity of the traditional sculptural arts in the Pacific region and provides a rare insight into the National Gallery of Australia’s collection of over two thousand works from the region.

The exhibition will include objects from Max Ernst’s private collection of nonwestern art and a number of iconic objects, such as the Ambum stone from Papua New Guinea and the Double figure from a housepost [To–reri uno] from Lake Sentani, Papua New Guinea.

nga.gov.au/GodsGhostsMen

Members' wine tastings
Saturday 27 September 3.30–5 pm
Continuing a year of fine wine in the context of art, the exotic themes in the exhibitions Picture paradise and Gods, ghosts and men inspire tastings that feature wines from around the world.
Free for members; $5 non-members | Members' Lounge

Sawos People   Papua New Guinea  Mogulapan   c.1600- 1900  wood, ochres National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gregor Krause   Gibbon, fully-grown male   1926   photogravure National Gallery of Australia Research Library, Canberra   Part of the Picture Paradise exhibition

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