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Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
The name of Florence Broadhurst, one of Australia’s most significant wallpaper and textile designers, is now firmly cemented in the canon of Australian art and design.
Diana Warnes explores the lives of Hal and Katherine 'Kate' Hattam through their portraits painted by Fred Williams and Clifton Pugh.
Michael Desmond, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2007 Prize.
Michael Desmond profiles a handful of the entrants in first National Photographic Portrait Prize and notes emerging themes and categories.
Corinna Cullen on the symbolic power of pandemic-related imagery over the ages.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of Chinese-Australian businessman and philanthropist Quong Tart.
Michael Desmond introduces some of the ideas behind the exhibition Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age.
Aviation carried women’s roles in society to greater heights – fashion followed suit.
Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.
Dr Sarah Engledow puts four gifts to the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection in context.
At first glance, this small watercolour group portrait of her two sons and four daughters by Maria Caroline Brownrigg (d. 1880) may seem prosaic, even hesitant
Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of convict-turned-artist William Buelow Gould.
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.