Shakespeare to Winehouse open 9:00am–7:00pm on Thu, Fri, Sat from 7 July
Mette Skougaard and Thomas Lyngby bring eloquent context to Ralph Heimans’ portraits of Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark.
Shipmates for years, James Cook and Joseph Banks each kept a journal but neither man shed light on their relationship.
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
A design diary retrospective.
Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, photographers and conservationists, shared a love of photography and exploring wilderness areas of Tasmania.
Marian Anderson’s glorious voice thrust her into stardom, and a more reluctant role as American civil rights pioneer.
Anne Sanders finds connections in Inner Worlds between Hungarian expatriates and the development of psychoanalysis in Australia.
Andrew Sayers discusses the real cost of George Lambert's Self portrait with gladioli 1922.
Pamela Gerrish Nunn explores New Zealand’s premium award for portraiture.
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.
Peter Wilmoth’s boy-journalist toolkit for antagonising an Australian political giant.
Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
Ensconced and meditative in crisp Tasmania, Joanna Gilmour pays tribute to passionate green advocate and photographer Olegas Truchanas.
Inner Worlds evokes a broad view of psychology as a discipline. However, the specific interests of the practitioners whose portraits are included in the exhibition incorporate specialist areas including psychoanalysis.
A focus on Indigenous-European relationships underpins Facing New Worlds. By Kate Fullagar.