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Young Indigenous Voices

One of the NPG’s Reconciliation Week programs Young Indigenous Voices, a portrait tour, was held Sunday 27 May.

Very Young Voices: Ryan Mulhall

Last Sunday, Ryan Mulhall was part of Very Young Voices a Children’s Week program that gave voice to the younger generation, sharing the stories of portraits they enjoy.

Young Arts Voices

Last sunday six emerging visual art, photography, dance, drama and music students responded to their favourite portraits in the NPG collection.

Guy Claxton Lecture

The Archduke

The immediate chain of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War began 100 years ago on June 28.

The sensational denouement of the case

The 'Yarra Boot Trunk Tragedy' unfolded a week before Christmas 1898, when some neighbourhood boys noticed a wooden box floating in the river at Richmond. 

Children’s Week

For the rest of the week we celebrate Children’s week and ‘the right of children to enjoy childhood.’

The finding of Clara Crosbie

Clara Harriet Crosbie was twelve years old when she went missing in the bush near Yellingbo in the Yarra Valley in May 1885.

Peaceful front

‘Is this one of yours?’ David Combe still remembers reading the letter from his father in early 1969. Like every soldier serving in Vietnam, he valued any missive from home.

Best buds

It’s important to have a best bud when you’re growing up. For many boys the transition from boyhood through adolescence is defined by wanting to fit in. 

Friends

Warwick Baker’s photos of his friends are intimate. They hold a stillness that allows their subjects to be at ease.

How do you see a Skater?

Skaters are the subject of our gaze in, Skater, photographs by Nikki Toole.

The selfie stick

Last week ABC Television came to interview me about selfie sticks. The story was prompted by the announcement that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has lately prohibited the use of these inside their galleries. So far as I am aware we have not yet encountered the phenomenon, but no doubt we will before too long.

Talking heads

In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.

An affray which deserves particular mention

Bushranger Ben Hall and his cronies held around 40 people hostage in a pub north-west of Goulburn, telling their captives ‘don’t be alarmed; we only came here for a bit of fun’.

Back track

Penelope Grist finds photographer Matt Nettheim re-visiting a formative and fulfilling career tram stop.