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In the galleries

Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.

All dressed up

Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?

Private virtues public lives

Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.

Kiwi magpie

Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.

Be frank

Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.

Annual Appeal

Where the wild things are

Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.

Support Crew

Portraits of philanthropists in the collection honour their contributions to Australia and acknowledge their support of the National Portrait Gallery.

Judicial portraits

Leslie Moran investigates the portraits of judges in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.

Conflicting images

Michael Desmond reveals the origins of composite portraits and their evolution in the pursuit of the ideal.

Vintage Max

Gael Newton delves into the life and art of renowned Australian photographer, Max Dupain.

The art of dress

Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.

Small worlds

Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.

Less than six degrees of separation

Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.

Arcadia: Sound of the sea

One night in the spring of 1970 in an old house in Whale Beach, north of Sydney, John Witzig, Albe Falzon and David Elfick put together the first issue of Tracks, playing Neil Young’s album Harvest over and over again as they pasted up galleys of type.

Money and swat

Andrew Sayers discusses the real cost of George Lambert's Self portrait with gladioli 1922.