No.25 NOV-DEC 2020: Seeing what they saw: Harden Sidney Melville's Torees Strait Canoe and five men at the site of a wreck on the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, off Cape Grenville, North East Australia, 1874 / Ian J. McNiven and Myles Russell-Cook p14. Louise Zhang / Katharina Prugger p26. The influence of nature [Art Nouveau] / Amanda Dunsmore p24. Ivan Durrant: barrier draw p30. Conservation 101: collecting environments p36. Finding time [Damien Wright] / Myf Doughty p52. Woven narratives [NGV Collection: South and South East Asia textiles] / Annika Aitken p58. Collaborating to conserve [museum grade varnish resin MS3] / Carl Villis p64. Arthur Streeton The purple noon's transparent might 1896 / Brian Martin p68. Conserving Streeton's iconic landscape / Michael Varcoe-Cocks and Jessica Lehmann p72. Bushfire Brandalism posters / Jessica Cole p76. Jason Wing / Hannah Presley p78. Dean Cross [The Yowie 2017] / Myles Russell-Cook p80. Michelle Woody Minnapinni / Judith Ryan p82. Donato Barcaglia's Love is Blind / Laurie Benson p86. Shearing the rams: on the road to Wangaratta / David Hurlston p90. Vale [Kate Daw, John Nixon] p100.

No.26 JAN-FEB 2021: Realising a landmark exhibition: supporters of the NGV Triennial 2020 / Misha Agzarian p14. Material messages [Talin Hazbar, Erez Nevi Pana and Porky Hefer] / Myf Doughty p19. Interview [Elliot Bastianon] / Simone LeAmon p24. Alice Potts / Alice Potts p26. Planet city: the great rewilding [Planet City, 2020 a film by Liam Young] / Ewan McEoin p30. Meet the NGV Triennial fashion designers [Fecal Matter, Tomo Kuizumi and Richard Quinn] / Danielle Whitfield p32. Queering a space: Boudoir Babylon / Adam Nathaniel Furman and Timothy Moore p36. Marco Luccio: posters for the people p38. Salon et Lumiere / Dr Ted Gott p44. Fred Wilson to die upon a kiss 2011 / Sigourney Jacks and Trude Ellingsen p48. Daniel Arsham / Elizabeth Doan p52. Looking skywards: the endless capability of clouds / Dr Vincent Alessi p54. Cecilie Bendixen's Cloud Formations / Cecilie Bendixen p60. Nari Ward / Sigourney Jacks p64. Luminous: caring for light in artworks p68. Venus: Jeff Koons / Tony Ellwood p74. Faye Toogood p78. Alicja Kwade / Katharina Prugger p84. Fallen fruit: natural history 2020 p88. An ode to the airbag [Jonathan Ben-Tovim / Dianne Whittle p92. Moja Moja Life: Misaki Kawai for kids / Kate Ryan p94. Making news [NGV Contemporary] p104.

No.27 MAR-APR 2021: JR's homily to country: storytelling with pictures / Jessica McLean p14. They are here with me, they are not gone, their blood runs through me and I am continuing their dream [Miwi Miloo] / Glenda Nicholls p18. Bruce Gilden / Meg Slater p22. Mirror image: contemporary portraiture, image and identity / Susan Van Wyk p24. Carnovsky / Marcia Christina Didero p32. Can we all have a happy life [Dhambit Mununggurr Tolnu artist] / Myles Russell-Cook p36. The flow of life with Makiko Ryujin and Michael Gittings [Samara 2020] / Makiko Ryujin and Michael Gittings p38. Danielle Burstman / Sarah Watts p44. Adrian Piper / Jessica Lehmann p47. Yann Gerstberger / John Parkinson p47. Steven Rhall / Kayla Clinch p48. Sabine Marcelis / Trude Ellingsen p49. Siji Krishnan / Ingrid Wood p50. Tomatama / Leah Santilli p52. Diamond Stingily / Katherine Prugger p54. She-oak and sunlight: Australian impressionism / Ann Gray p58. Arcadia visions [nature, art and landscape and Australian impressionism] / Dr Angela Hesson p64. Australian impressionism: a wider context [indigenous history and Australian impressionism] / Sophie Gerhard p68. Lasting friendships: Australia's impressionist pioneers [Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbi and Louis Abrahams plein-air camp in Box Hill and the conservation of their work during lockdown] / Michael Varcoe-Cocks p72. The ceramics of Pablo Picasso: playing with the fourth dimension / Amanda Dunsmore p78. Midnight mountain / Danielle Brustman p94. Revisiting Robin Boyd's The Australian Ugliness / Michael Ryan p96. Making news [Yann Gerstberger, Kengo Kuma and Geoff Nees X Le Ufan, Nicholas Caire, Top Arts 2021, a new frame for Arthur Streeton's Spring 1890, NGV Triennial] p102. Around Victoria [Damien Shen, Lara Chamas, The Studio of Karl Duldig, Yhonnie Scarce] p106.

No.28 MAY-JUNE 2021: French impressionism: from the museum of fine arts Boston [Winter Masterpieces 2021] p14. Realism and modernity [landscape and outdoors in impressionism] / Miranda Wallace p20. A delicacy of touch: the feminising of French Impressionism / Meg Slater p26. La Broderie 1889 [Annual Appeal: Berthe Morisot La Broderie] / Cara Becker p32. Big weather / Hannah Presley p34. Conservator insight [Fish scoop by Yvonne Koolmatrie, Eel trap by Dot Peters, Mandjabu by Anchior Kalunba, Kelp water carrier by Julie Gough] p38. Rising: Melbourne 26 May-6 June 2021 p39. Current issues [Siena Stubbs reflections on sustainable practices of Yolnu community in North East Arnhem Land inspired by Big Weather] / Siene Stubbs p40. But goodways [the deep stories that run through Big Weather] / Dr Jared M Field p44. Capturing fleeting moments [influence of science, technology and commerce on the Impressionist paintings in the NGV Collection] / Caitlin Breare and Raye Collins p54. NGVWA celebrating 60 years [National Gallery of Victoria Women's Association and French porcelain vases] p58. Establishing a new order: the avant-garde creatives who upturned the art world [NGV acquisitions: Blaue Reiter Almanac, David Burliuk, Natalia Gonchavora, Churilin, El Lissitzky For Reading Out Loud, USSR in Construction] / Cathy Leahy p64. Clemenger travel grants p68. The Australians in France [She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism] / Dr Anne Gray p74. Tcheu Siong Yawm Saub Chao / Wayne Crothers p86. Dora and Francoise[Dora Maar and Francoise Gilot] / Dr Maria Quirk p88. NGV online courses: exclusive course extract [Ted Gott on colour employed by the Impresionist artists] / Dr Ted Gott p94. Alexander McQueen / Danielle Whitfield p96.

No.29 JULY-AUG 2021: Goya's visions / Dr Petra Kayser p19. Maree Clarke: making memories [Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories at Ian Potter NGV] / Dr Fran Edmonds p26. Art Deco: extravagant, innovative, considered / Amanda Dunsmore p36. Olaf Breuning on planning and plans for the planet / Kate Ryan p44. Jenny Holzer's truisms / Katherina Prugger p48. Vagabonding in the more than human world [Cai Guo-Qiang's Murmuration] / Dr Susan Hurley p52. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you: Frank Lloyd Wright / Amanda Dunsmore p64. We change the world [We Change The World exhibition at Ian Potter NGV] / Elisha Buttler p68. Swimming in dirty water: Camille Henrot in conversation [Is Today to Tomorrow] / Pip Wallis p80. Common ground: George Nakashima and Isamu Noguchi p86. Around Victoria [Out of Darkness: A survivors' journey Robert House Art Gallery of Ballarat, Blanche Tilden Geelong Gallery, Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2021, Shelter in Place Town Hall Gallery] p102.

No.30 SEP-OCT 2021: Sampling the future [Ian Potter Centre exhibition technology and art] / Ewan Mceoin p16. Making Unclear Cloud / Philip Samartzis p24 .Lavinia Fontana [Mystic marriage of St Catherine earliest artwork by a woman to enter the collection] / Laurie Benson p26. A golden opportunity: reviving the lost aart of kai-awase and kai-oke production / Professor Yamazaki Tatsufmi p34. Life and times [Berthe Morisot] / Ted Gott p40. Design the unknown: symbols and objects of death remembrance and mourning in design and making / Penny Craswell p46. Unraveling golden threads [18th century Englsh bed cover given by Queen Anne to Lady Bathurst bought with the resources of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty] / Katie Somerville p54. To make is to be human [History in the Making-NGV exhibition] / Eli Gianni p60. A radical style [19th century Japanese artists] / Amanda Dunsmore p64. The cosmos in a single stroke [Lee Ufan's Dialogue] / Nikos Papastergiadis p68. Change and continuity in twenty-first century India [Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India] / Minhazz Majudar p76. Tell me about [NGV's Baroque collection] / Laurie Benson p82. Dame Elizabeth's embroidered garden [ornate crewel work bed curtains donated by the Estate of Dame Elizabeth Murdoch] / Kate Douglas p86. Good design, good glass good times [Hothaus Studio glass for the NGV design store] p98.

No.31 NOV-DEC 2021: Jeu de l'echarpe: the scarf dance [sculpture by Sevres, new to NGV collection] / by Amanda Dunsmore p15. A sensation in unglazed porcelain [background for Jeu de l'echarpe] / by Trude Ellingsen p21. The Gecko and the Mermaid [exhibition of Indigenous art for children] / Djerrknu Yunupinu and her sister p22. Manyi [authors memories of growing up in the NT] / Sienna Stubbs p27. Found and gathered [exhibition of the works of Rosalie Gascoigne from New Zealand and Lorraine Connelly-Northey of the Waradgerie (Wiradjuri) people] / by Beckett Rozentals and Myles Russell-Cook p28. Transformed through time [Conservation work of the 16th century painting Portrait of a Cardinal held in the collection of the NGV] / Carl Villis p34. Indonesia's shadows come to life [Indonesian shadow puppets held in the collection of the NGV] / by Wayne Crothers p42. History in the making [exhibition of designs across various creative fields found in the NGV's collection] / by Simone Leamon p47. Bark ladies: eleven artists from Yirrkala / by Myles Russell-Cook p53. New to the collection [works of the artist Camille Henrot added to NGV's collection] / by Pip Wallis p68. Artist spotlight: Naomi Hobson [Southern Kaantju/Umpila artist] / by Myles Russell-Cook p75. Reacting in the now [how art museums can reflect the world as it happens, and what specifically the NGV is doing] / by Amanda Luo, Jessica Cole, Katharine Prugger and Simone Leamon p78.
No.32 JAN-FEB 2022: Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto p16. Encountering Chanel in the archives / Amy De La Haye p26. How to read a Gabrielle Chanel design / Paola Di Trocchio p30. The timeless design of Shaker / Peter and Eloise Smyrl p36. Joy Hester / Sophie Gerhard p40. Manerism / Laurie Benson p50. Custom conservation [NGV Fashion and Textiles and Conservation Department] / Skye Firth p57. A companion to the horizon [Frank Lloyd-Wright Usonian furniture] / Amanda Dunsmore p62. Against the tide: surrealism and graphic design [acquired works from the collection of Paul and Genevieve Kahn] p66. Pond[er] [NGV's pink lake Taylor Knights and artist James Carey p72. Mulkun Wirrpanda / Will Stubbs p78. Requiem to New York: photographs by Ashley Gilbertson p82. Anne-Marie May [RBG Mobile] / Katharina Prigger p88. Maria Kozic [Bitch(Drill) p90. Kathy Temin (Duck-rabbit problem] p91. Howard Arkley [Muzak mural-chair tableau] p92. Jenny Watson [A Painted Page 1] p93. Design store [Bark Ladies: Eleven artists from Yirrkala] p98.

No.33 MAR-APR 2022: Looking beyond the frame [Queer: stories from the NGV collection by Ponch Hawkes] / Meg Slater p16. Stories from antiquity [Queer: stories from the NGV collection] / Dr Ted Gott p22. Design the world you want [Melbourne Design Week] p32. Melbourne Art Book Fair 2022 p35. Jeffrey Smart [exhibition; NGA] p35. Observations: women in art and design history [online seminar series by NGV] p38. A studio of her own: women artists, 1500-1900 / Dr Maria Quirk p46. Francoise Duparc / Dr Ted Gott p52. The colourful life and times of Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun / Laurie Benson p56. Launching into the modern age [works from Japanese women living during the 1920s and 1930s] / Wayne Crothers p61. Creating History: Martha Pettway p65. Here comes the new woman!: women photographers in the twentieth century [transcripts of the online series] / Susan Van Wyk p72. 'Things speak of the place they came from' [NGV exhibition Found and Gathere3d: Rosalie Gascoigne] / Martin Gascoigne p76. Tell me about: Rococo [NGV Magazine series] / Laurie Benson p78. New art to explore [works recently joining the NGV collection] / Amanda Luo p86. Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto [exhibition] p96. Who Are You: Australian Portraiture [exhibition] p106.

No.34 MAY-JUN 2022: New to the collection [Japanese screens] p15. Utagawa Kuniyoshi: Mitsukuni defying the skeleton spectre conjured up by Princess Takiyasha c. 1844 p18. Explore other new acquisitions joining the Asian art collection [Utagawa Yoshikazu Dutch acrobats 1861, Shishi with peony, ofuroshiki (wrapping cloth) Meiji period (1868 - 1912) p19. Movers and printmakers [Megan Cope, Shaun Gladwell, Tim Maguire,Patricia Piccinini] p22. Introducing the Picasso century: A world of conflict [WWI] / Prof. Peter McPhee p30. Art history in the making [Cubism] / Dr Anthony White p34. 5 artists to make a beeline for in the Picasso century [Julio Gonzalez, Francis Bacon, Marie Laurencin, Dora Maar, Suzanne Duchamp] p39. Lights, camera, trailblazer: women photographers in the twentieth century [Ruth Hollick, Olive Cotton, Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott] / Maggie Finch p44. A stitch in Sujuni [India's Bihar villages, Kapoori Devi, Archana Kumari] / Sunita Lewis p52. The journals and archives of Francoise Gilot [Pablo Picasso] / Dr Susan Hurley p57. Contemplating QUEER [Stories from the NGV collection] / Dr Ronnie Scott p64. A herald [Albrecht Durer] / Fiona Wright p66. Harriet Frishmuth / Dr Ted Gott p70. The animacy of gender [Who are you: Australian portraiture at the Ian Potter centre] / Nevo Zisin p83. Facing the unknown 'Portraits of a lady' in the NGV collection / Dr Maria Quirk p90.
No.35 JUL-AUG 2022: Designing back to the future [Holden Hurricane] p16. Windows into a world [fashion magazines] / Hilary Davidson p20. Archives, abstractions and Anna Higgins / Maggie Finch p29. Women and Dutch still life painting / Dr Maria Quirk p31. On Maria van Oosterwyck / Laurie Benson p32. A conversation between Tony ellwood AM and Angelo Candalepas p34. The road to Omphalos p40. 'We know NGV Contemporary will be a place for all Australians to enjoy the best we have to offer' [$100 millions commitment from Lindsay Fox AC, Paula Fox AO and family] / Misha Agzarian p42. Requiem for New York [Ashley Gilbertson] p50. To every age its art! [women designers] / Dr Anne-Katrin Rossberg p58. A salute to Frau-Haus! [The Bauhaus Art School] / Prof elizabeth Otto 61. Past and present [designing for generations] / Sanita Lewis p64. Prose for thought [complex biological structure] p70. A new deal ["Here Comes the New Woman part 3] / Susan Van Wyk p76. Alternate realities [Augmented Reality] / Nicola Suur p80. On war, hunger and culinary nostangia [Picasso] / Dr Lara Anderson p84. In the artist's studio with Lucas Wearne / Elisa Scarton p90. Refuge by Design [quiet places] / Prof Wendy Steel] p94.

No.36 SEP-OCT 2022: Fred Williams: the London drawings / Cathy Leahy p16. Medieval marvel [medieval work in the NGVs collection] / Laurie Benson p24. Homecoming: Indigenous art from the NGV collection / Myles Russell Cooks p28. Passion, planet and preservation [suitable collecting environment Flemish carved polychrome retable] / Michael Varcoe-Cocks p38. Other sustainability news from the NGV / Lust Hastewell p41. The future is now [Nam June Paik and Jospeh Beuys] / Amita Kirpalani p42. Building on Bilbao: Mecca X women in design commission / Gemma Savio p50. My NGV [Marge by Joan Mitchell and NGV Waterwall] p62. The magic of Marion Mahony Griffin / Glenda Korporaal p68. How Charlotte Perriand made the world modern / Imogen Mallia-Valjan p76. Young and Free [Sensation exhibition and British art] / Elizabeth Legge p82. Missing piece [Madonna and the Child with three angels by Cosimo Roselli] / Carl Vills p88. A master craftsman [Bell Cahir Khai Liew] p90. Great British icons [Jumping faun lily tray Wedgewood] / Imogen Mallia-Valjan p94.

No.37 NOV-DEC 2022: The Temple of Boom [Grollo Equiset Garden in NGV] / Dr Timothy Moore 17. Winter Acropolis / Prof. Nikos Papastergiadis p20. 'The lady in white' [British artist Annie Swynnerton] / Dr Ted Gott p33. What's in a Watts frame [also known as George Frederick 1817-1904] / Jason King p35. Alexander McQueen: mind, mythos, muse [life and legacy of Lee Alexander McQueen] / Clarissa M. Esguerra and Michael Hansen p37. Past is present [overview of Chinese history] / Waune Crothers p49. Becoming one: Xiao Lu's dialogues of ink and water / Dr Luise Gueat p52. The making of Mao [documentary "Chairman Buddha" follows Mao worshipers] / Barbara Mitler p54. Lusian Freud / Cathy Leahy p62. Identity, memory and Nadia Hernadez [Venezuelan artist] / Elisa Scarton p66. The sun queen [Egyptian queen, Queen Nefertiti] / Amanda Dunsmore p74. Richard Mosse: on the World Premiere of "Broken Spectre" / Daniel Milroy Maher p80.
No.38 JAN-FEB 2023: Alexander McQueen - mind, mythos, muse p16. In the studio with Iggy & Lou Lou [ceramics inspired by Alexander McQueen] p36. 200 years of fashion magazines [Krystyna Campbell-Pretty] p40. Let's get metaphysical [Giorgio de Chirico] / Dr Ken Wach p45. The Godfather of surrealism [Giorgio de Chirico] / Laurie Benson p47. The rise and fall of Memphis [collection] p48. Magical objects: illusions and puzzles in design and architecture / Penny Craswell p52. Mountain climber 2022 [Troy Emery's textiles and sculptural works] / Nakita Wilson p60. 2022 NGV Architecture Commission [reimagine of The Partheon - Acropolis in Athens] p62. All about An-gujechiya [fish traps - collections] / Myles Russell-Cook p72. Mid-century Mavericks [Australian fashion designers] / Nicole Jenkins p82. Keramik Kool [Wiener Keramik workship in Vienna] / Clare McLeod p86. When the Father of Pop Art Richard Hamilton drew Ulysses / Brian McAvera p92. Inge King at Fed Square ["Rings of Jupitaer"] / Sophie Gerhard p96.

No.39 MAR-APR 2023: The new Civic Centres [results of frowing population in Melbourne] / Dr Timothy Moore p26. The weight of air [artist Rel Pham] / Elisa Scarton p34. The vases [veritas, Greek and southern Italian] / Dr Lieve Donnellan p42. Musings on McQueen [Lee Alexander McQueen exhibition] p46. Subversion, shock and sensuality [Lee Alexander McQueen exhibition] Prof Jacqueline Millner p50. The Brotherhood of the Nabis [French artists active in Paris 1888-1900] / Dr Ted Gott p53. Tell me about Rodin [Auguste Rodin, "Walking Man of 1900"] Laurie Benson p56. Art in the (post-) digital age / Harriet Flavel p60. Fied eggs & me [Alex Creece, Sarah Lucas] p66. A splendid land [Palace Museum of Udaipur] / Sanita Lewis p70. Maayama (make by hand) [designer Julie Shaw] / SHone Hobson p82. Eveline Syme & Iso Rae / Beckett Rozentals and Sphie Gerhard p88.

No.40 MAY-JUN 2023: Melbourne Art Book Fair p10. Rembrandt [true to life] p16. All about Abraham Francen / Cathy Leahy p19. Portrait of the white-haired man / Lauire Benson p20. Conversations with Rembrandt / Paul Crensahw and Amy Golahny p22. The people behind the portraits / Louise Wilson p26. Mae West's lips: Salvador Dali p30. India Mahdavi: the joy of design / Meg Slater p38. The interior space / Dr Georgina Downey p44. 52 ceramic replicas of shopping lists found while working in a Melbourne supermarket / Kenny Pittok p53. Lost in Melbourne Zoo / Matthew Clarke p54. How to Lift Me Up, Mum Walking in Deer Park, and Exit Sign (falling) [exhibitions] / Sanja Pahoki p55. Suspended in time / Ashley Perry p56. Old fashioned cahe register with the old paper dollar notes and coins, Jade Hurley's 20 golden oldies and Panasonic tape recorder from 1980s / Losa Reid p57. On "The Quickening" / Ying Ang p60. The calm before the storm / Elisa Scarton p62. Takahiro [Japan's artist] / Takahiro Iwasaki p69. Your guide to Melbourne Design Week 2023 / Georgia Smedley p72. Next level design / Penny Craswell p77. Ballad of Bibliophile / Dr Anna Welch p78. Painter, plant hunter / Sophie Gerhard p84. Westwood - the fashion revolutionary / Charlotte Botica p88. CELL (glass spheres and hands) / Sophie Oxenbridge p93.

No.41 JULY-AUGUST 2023: [Pierre Bonnard and Japan [Melbourne Winter Masterpieces] p18. Make way for the Modernists [British modernism and NGV] Dr Maria Quirk p26. A collection of curiosities [Rembrandt: True to Life [ on display at NGV] p56. Recontextualising Rembrandt [NGV Scholars Series] / Dr Betsy Wieseman p60. Journey along the Tokaido [Utagawa Hiroshige] / Wayne Crothers p64. Burdi Burdi [fire fire - Bidjara language] / Dr Christian Thompson AO p72. Speaking on sorrow [Drew Pettifer: "Melbourne Now"] / Myles Russell-Cook p74. A light in the dark [hand-painting paper lanterns, Kojima Shoten, Larrakia/Wardaman/Karajarri artist Jenna Lee] / Elisa Scarton p79. Honouring Margaret Olley AC p84. Vale John Olsen AO OBE 1928-2023, William Mora 1953-2023 p86. Stories of saris [Kanchipurum] / Sanita Lewis p88. Karl Lagerfield's autumn-winter 1996-97 collection [embroidery at Maison Lesage] / Dr Liliana Pomazan p91.

No.41 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2023: Pierre Bonnard [designed by India Mahdavi] your guide to slow looking / Olivia Meehan p32. Bonnard in motion / Miranda Wallace p36. the woman behind the bather / Louise Wallace p40. Planetery redesign with Liam Young /Elisa Scarton p50. the legacy of the Ottoman empire / Feliz Yenisehirlioglu p58. A walk through watercolour country [Honouring the timeless legacy and thriving contemporary practices of the Hermansburg School of Watercolourists] /sophie Gerhard p72. Welcome to Wurrdha Marra [ permanent gallery space dedicated to First Nations art and design NGV Ian Potter Centre] / Myles Russell-Cook p41.


No.43 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2023: The third iteration of the NGV Triennial exhibition launches this December p18. Essay Matter Matters / Ewan McEoin p20. Agnieszka Pilat's Hetrobota 2003 p22. Yinka Shonibare Hybrid Sculpture p23. Ilana Savdie Chronic Irritations p24. John Gerrard Flare p25. Thomas J Price All In p26. Richard Lewer Out Of The Ground God Formed All The Wild Animals And All The Birds In The Sky. He Brought Them To Man And Asked Him To Name Each Living Creature. He Gave Names To All The Livestock, Wild Animals And Birds In The Sky p27 Tyler Mitchel Albany Georgia p28. in the studio with Fernando Laposse [Laposse recounts through furniture, objects, film and a major 40 m long narrative textile - the Cheran Tapestry- the struggle by local people to defend their home from criminal cartels and preserve their forest ecosystem, which is being cleared for avocado production] / Gemma Savio p32. the march of the monarch butterflies [in pre Hispanic folklore, migrating butterflies were often thought to have carried the souls of ancestors visiting from the afterlife.] / Fernando Laposse p37. Bethan Laura Wood [installation for the MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission considers the gendered history of education and the transmission of knowledge] / Stefanie Markidis p40. dear prudence [in meticulously composed paintings, artist Prudence Flint creates interiors featuring mysterious female protagonists who are often lost in thought, surrounded by everyday objects that serve as metaphors for the inner world.] / Prudence Flint p44. tradition and the new China [moving fluidly and fluently between heritage and a contemporary image-drenched context, NGV Triennial artists Li Lihong, Song Wei and Lin Fanglu adapt the past to respond to the reality of the present in China, but what does this mean for a generation of artists that have grown up with the influence of both McDonalds and Mao Zedong?] /Genevieve Trail p48. interweaving sustainability a moral imperative for Burrara women [in 2021 the NGV commissioned Mun-dirra- one of the most impressive examples of fibre art ever undertaken globally. The NGV is delighted to present this monumental work as part of Triennial 2023] /Myles Russell-Cook p54. 5 minutes with Smac McCreanor [Sarah McCreanor is an Australian artist based in Los Angeles. Under the moniker Smac McCreanor, she has created the widely popular Hydraulic Press Girl series] /Elisa Scarton p58. mighty mouse [the final work in Ryan Ganders' The End, 2020 the British artists trilogy of prophetic, animated mice which appear to gallery goers from the debris of a hole in a wall. NGV shares an excerpt from the work p60. this is air [the 2023 NGV architectural commission by Nic Brunsdon in collaboration with art and technology studio ENESS, a large inflatable membrane structure that invites a multi-sensory encounter with atmospheric awareness /Alex Brown p64. MECCA holiday collaboration [Kaylene Whiskey whose vivid paintings show Hollywood actors, famous divas and pop icons interacting with Whiskeys' daily life in Indulkana, north-west of Adelaide] / Sophie Gerhard p68. NGV scholars series ['look here, upon this picture' in this essay Dr David McInnis considers how artists imagined and brought to life the plays of Shakespeare through examples in the NGV collection] /David McInnis p72. the NGV welcomes into the collection an impressive circular canvas, Pacific 1972-73 by notable abstract expressionist painter Peter Upward / Beckett Rozentals p80. NGV paintings conservator shares background to preparing Pacific 1972-73 for display / Raymonda Rajkowski p82. Jackets c.1895 [the late 19th century craze for cycling and the effect it had on the lives and wardrobes of women is revealed ] / Katie Somerville p84. new to the collection [ Frank Lloyd Wright vase c1902 ] / Amanda Dunsmore Imogen Mallia-Valjan p88.

No.44 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2024: Triennial [Sheila Hicks] p18. Agnieszka Pilat p28. Works not to be missed [Aunty Kim Wandin, Heather B. Swann, Diana Al-Hadid, Chase Hall, Ashley Eriksmoen, Dunne & Raby, Lucy Bull, Vojtech Kovarik p38. Emerging from darkness at Hamilton Art Gallery [Italian Baroque art at NGV] p48. You are there [Joel Andrianomearisoa] p52. The beauty of transience [Flora Yukhanovich] p56. Under the sea [NGV Kid gallery] / Elisa Scarton p60. Tell me about Eugene Boudin [NGV collection] / Jessica McEwen p64. Moderate or good, occasionally rough [Franziska Furter] p67. Anatomy of Azuma Makoto ["A Chaotic Garden"] p70. Spellbounding: the intermingling of magic and art [Triennial 2023] p76. Germaine Krull Metal portfolio, 1928 [NGV collection] p82. Afra and Tobia Scarpa p86. Viva NGV Italia p88. Elisabetta Sirani ["Head of a Boy" - NGV new work] / Dr Petra Kayser p90. Vale Marcus (Marc) Besen 1923-2023 p92.


No.45 MARCH-APRIL 2024: Hugh Hayden [Triennial 2023] / Donna McColm, Elisa Scarton p18. Anatomy of art [Triennial 2023, painting 'The garden of love' 1465-1470] p25. A conversation with Tracey Emin [artist] / Patricia Karvelas p29. New to the collection p36. Mele O Na Kaukani Wai [Triennial] / Edwina Green p46. Stitches of memory: living the past and remembering the future [Indigenous stories] / Dt Lisa-Ravna Finbog p49. The door the bone dress opened [Elsa Schiaparelli, Triennial] / Dan Thawley] p52. Thebe Magugu [Triennial] / Danielle Whitfield p54. Iris van Herpen [Triennial] / Katie Somerville p55. Beyond catastroph [Triennial] / JEssica McEwen p56. NGV Triennial champions [philantropic community] p60. My flora, my fauna [Hulda Guzman] p66. Hulda in Samana [artist] p68. In the studio with Shakuntala Kulkarni [artist] / Simone LeAmon p70. The Forest & the Gallery [exhibition in Salon] / Elisa Scarton p75. Myths and Mori [Osamu Mori] / Dr Wendy Ella Wright 76. Marrow becomes breath [Diesrick Brackens, Triennial] / Irene Vazquez p82. My Country [new biennial mentorship] / Edwina Green, Sophie Prince p88.