National Gallery of Australia

Australia's National Gallery acquires country's first Gauguin painting

The museum, which is hosting a major survey of the post-Impressionist artist's work, paid $6.5m for 'The blue roof' or 'Farm at Le Pouldu'

Gauguin’s complex life and career probed in huge Canberra survey

Exhibition curated by a former Louvre director includes a deep-dive into the artist’s time in French Polynesia, where he painted many of his most famous works

Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart at centre of portrait controversy

Mining magnate asked National Gallery of Australia to remove depiction by Aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira

A new survey of the Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray lets her community tell the story

The exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia singles the artist out as one of the great painters of the late 20th century

Superstar of Australian art Emily Kam Kngwarray to get Tate Modern show in 2025

The Indigenous painter, whose survey opens at the National Gallery of Australia this week, only started her artistic career in her mid-70s

National Gallery of Australia investigates whether Indigenous artists had ‘creative control’ over works in new exhibition

An independent review will assess allegations that white studio staff painted on canvases attributed to leading Aboriginal artists

National Gallery of Australia commissions its most expensive ever piece of art

Lindy Lee's A$14m sculpture will be one of the country's first environmentally sustainable public works

Boris Johnson says Van Gogh’s Sunflowers 'lifts the soul'—as the London masterpiece is unveiled in Australia

Britons will have to wait a bit longer to enjoy the painting as Covid-19 delays the National Gallery’s international tour, now on its final stop in Canberra

a blog by Martin Bailey

Spring into summer: see the major shows almost scuppered by lockdown

From Titian's masterpieces and a major Raphael survey, to the final stop of the Soul of a Nation tour

Van Gogh's Sunflowers will leave London for over a year as Australian show is added to loan tour

Masterpiece from London's National Gallery is headed for Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia

Museumsarchive

Australia's ill-advised purchase of Indian artefact

The National Gallery of Australia bought the Shiva statue despite uncertainty over its provenance

What happened to the Maharajah of Indore’s Brancusi birds?

In 1973 the Tate wanted to buy Brancusi’s black marble “Bird in space” through dealer Richard Feigen, but the sale fell through because the trustees believed the work had been “smuggled” out of India

Collectorsarchive

Collector interview: Peter Fay, Australia’s champion of the outsider

The collector of works that are knotty, passionate, perverse and deeply personal talks about his tastes and his gift to the nation

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Ethnographica or art?

Some European and American museums have bought work by Aboriginal artists but there is no broad base of collectors outside Australia for such paintings and no consensus that this work qualifies as “art”

Cambodiaarchive

The first exhibition of Angkor-period art to leave Cambodia

Australia makes capital out of the 1991 peace accord in Cambodia and demonstrates its newly established diplomatic ties