NewsBite

National Gallery of Australia

Advertisement
Ipswich Mayor Teresa Harding at the hanging of Mark Rothko’s 1957 #20, at Ipswich Art Gallery.

Ipswich Art Gallery to showcase $116m Rothko painting from National Collection

The painting is on loan for two years from the National Gallery of Australia as part of a program designed to bring visitors to regional galleries.

  • Nick Dent

Latest

Ouroboros by Lindy Lee.

First look inside the 13-tonne, $14 million artwork coming to the National Gallery

A $60m revitalisation of the National Gallery of Australia will circle the building in gardens. Pride of place will be Lindy Lee’s massive Ouroboros.

  • Julie Power
Lee's $14 million dollar sculpture will be unveiled on October 25. CREDIT: National Gallery of Australia
Video icon1:12

Ouroboros by Lindy Lee

Lee's $14 million dollar sculpture will be unveiled on October 25. CREDIT: National Gallery of Australia

Vincent Namatjira’s portrait of Gina Rinehart at the National Gallery of Australia.

Rinehart asked National Gallery to ‘permanently dispose’ of portraits

Documents released under freedom-of-information laws reveal Australia’s richest person appealed directly to the National Gallery’s chair Ryan Stokes.

  • Linda Morris and Eryk Bagshaw

A dunny. A yabby. A puffer jacket … Sculptor Alex Seton’s making his mark – in marble

Australian artist Alex Seton made his name turning the mundane into the poetic. Now he’s off to the traditional home of marble sculpting: Italy.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

What links a dead paedophile painter with Paris 2024? Shame

As Paris holds the world’s gaze, France’s continued meddling in the Pacific paints a less-than-golden picture of colonial neglect and the price of imperialism.

  • Malcolm Knox
Advertisement
Vincent Namatjira’s portrait of Gina Rinehart at the National Gallery of Australia.

Our National Gallery must continue to stand up to Gina Rinehart

New documents revealing how Gina Rinehart sought to influence the National Gallery of Australia should ring alarm bells.

  • The Herald's View
Double or nothing: Vincent Namatjira’s portraits of Gina Rinehart were the subject of requests for removal.

Inside the campaign to take down Gina Rinehart’s portraits

Rinehart lobbied Seven chief executive Ryan Stokes in a campaign the National Gallery of Australia feared would be weaponised by Peter Dutton in parliament.

  • Linda Morris and Eryk Bagshaw
Driza-Bone advertisement featuring John Bjeke-Petersen and Gina Rinehart.

Holy Gruen Transfer! Gina Rinehart stars in bush apparel ad with Bjelke-Petersen’s son

Australia’s richest person has been particular about her image management recently.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Self-portrait with the Yellow Christ, 1890–91.

Master or monster: The artist equally loathed and revered

Call it charisma, presence or personal magnetism. Paul Gauguin had it in abundance.

  • John McDonald

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/national-gallery-of-australia-1nsm