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Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Roger Benjamin explores the intriguing union of Lina Bryans and Alex Jelinek.
Karen Vickery on Chang the Chinese giant in Australia.
Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture.
Athol Shmith’s photographs contributed to the emergence of a new vision of Australian womanhood.
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.