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The Portrait Gallery's paintings of two poets, Les Murray and Peter Porter, demonstrate two very different artists' responses to the challenge of representing more than usually sensitive and imaginative men.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Portraits of philanthropists in the collection honour their contributions to Australia and acknowledge their support of the National Portrait Gallery.
Preserving stories, subverting power and posing nude: Benjamin Law explores the potency and persuasiveness of portraiture.
Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.
Bradley Vincent considers Samuel Hodge’s use of the archive to create a queer vernacular of portraiture.
Cate Blanchett and the art of acting in Rosetzky’s digital portrait.
Michael Desmond looks at the history of the Vanity Fair magazine in conjunction with the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
Gallery directors Karen Quinlan and Tony Ellwood talk to Penelope Grist about the NPG and NGV collaborative exhibition, Who Are You: Australian Portraiture.
Roger Benjamin explores the intriguing union of Lina Bryans and Alex Jelinek.
To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).
Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.
The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.
Christopher Chapman contemplates the provocative performance art of Chris Burden.
Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
Athol Shmith’s photographs contributed to the emergence of a new vision of Australian womanhood.