In an unusual departure from its mixed-artist exhibitions, the National Portrait Gallery has opened its 2024 season with an exhibition of high seriousness – Ralph Heimans: Portraiture. Power. Influence, reports HELEN MUSA.
Performance, concerts and gallery news pepper HELEN MUSA's latest Artsweek column that rounds up what's what and where in the Canberra arts scene.
It was something of a love-fest on Thursday afternoon at the National Portrait Gallery when artist Del Kathryn Barton joined Maggie Beer to unveil her new portrait of the kitchen queen, reports HELEN MUSA.
"Even at 100, the Archibald Prize demonstrates that the power of portraiture still has us fascinated," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY of the National Portrait Gallery's “Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize” exhibition.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports from “PORTRAIT23: Identity”, National Portrait Gallery’s newest exhibition, marking the institution’s third decade.
Bree Pickering is the new director of the National Portrait Gallery, replacing Karen Quinlan, who left the NPG in 2022 to become CEO of Arts Centre Melbourne.
Melbourne artist Tony Sowersby’s painting of his local postie has won the 2022 People’s Choice Award for the 2022 Darling Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.
An exhibition challenging how we see ourselves is coming to the National Portrait Gallery this weekend, reports HELEN MUSA.
National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan will leave the gallery in September to take up a new position as CEO of Arts Centre Melbourne, NPG chair Penny Fowler announced today (August 3).
“Parting is such sweet sorrow” says the National Portrait Gallery, quoting from “Romeo and Juliet” as it farewells “Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London”, which finishes up on Sunday.
The “Shakespeare to Winehouse” exhibition at the Portrait Gallery has inspired local dance companies to create a cross-regional, ongoing dance work, says reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
Reviewer ROB KENNEDY says the “Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London” exhibition is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to see these iconic paintings.
In a significant coup for our own National Portrait Gallery, more than 80 treasures from London’s National Portrait Gallery are about to go on show in Canberra, reports HELEN MUSA.
In Canberra, the arts never stop. HELEN MUSA, our arts editor, has it covered.
THE Morrison Government has appointed high-powered Melbourne board director Penny Fowler as chair of the board of the National Portrait Gallery.
Two new leadership appointments have been made to Canberra's cultural institutions.
THE National Portrait Gallery is enticing patrons in with free entry to “Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize 2021”, from today to Sunday.
What's on in the arts this week? Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's round-up.
From inflatable sculptures to a new south-coast literature event and a unique Dali exhibition, it's all in arts editor HELEN MUSA's arts round-up.
