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NGV Magazine

NGV Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine featuring writing from NGV and around the world that considers the many ways and reasons that we create, design, speculate and investigate. Learn how artists and designers make things, sink deep into the lives, challenges and achievements of creative people throughout history, and consider the world anew through the many ideas and perspectives explored through art and design.

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Latest issue

Issue 50 Jan–Feb 2025

The first edition of NGV Magazine for 2025 continues coverage of Yayoi Kusama with an in-depth essay on the artist’s recent decades and the moments that transformed her career. We also explore new works at NGV International with mid-century furniture from Ray and Charles Eames and Verner Panton and Isamu Noguchi, and take a closer look at the life and work of Bhupen Khakhar and his work Terrace party, 1974. At The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia we celebrate Sally Gabori: Land of All and her contribution to contemporary art and learn more about Bark Salon, featuring more than 150 bark paintings on show.

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Features in this issue

COVER STORY Yayoi Kusama: Global Icon

‘Across nearly nine decades of artmaking, she has never aligned herself with an art movement or group. Instead she has forged a path and sent a message that is singular yet widely understood.’

Meg Slater

COLLECTION STORIES William Blake: Romantic Visionary

‘Imagination was of supreme importance to Blake, who believed that art must proceed from inner visions and not the empirical observation of nature.’

By Cathy Leahy

AT NGV INTERNATIONAL Mid-Century Mavericks

‘And while first-generation mid-century furniture, if purchased today, may no longer fit the Eameses’ description of accessible or affordable, it remains one of design’s most recognisable and iconic movements.’

By Elisa Scarton

THE IAN POTTER CENTRE: NGV AUSTRALIA Bark Salon

Bark Salon illustrates the connections between international and local art histories, offering audiences a chance to see the significant experimentation that has occurred within the bark painting tradition.’

Michael Gentle and Myles Russell-Cook

NEW TO THE COLLECTION Katsushika Ōi: Hokusai’s artist daughter

‘The father and daughter were accustomed to working long hours together, and over the years they learnt to imitate one another seamlessly, creating cohesive, captivating prints and paintings.’

By Adele D’Souza

COLLECTION STORIES Gemma Smith: Bask

‘ I love the feeling of being delighted by chance interactions of colours I’d never expected or aimed for.’

By Gemma Smith and Amita Kirpalani