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'Myth + Magic: art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea' exhibition - Now open! Don't miss this spectacular exhibition and discover the stories behind these Sepik treasures. #NGAPacificArt #Sepik #PNG #PacificArts #PapuaNewGuinea #SepikRiver
Today all of us at the NGA are getting behind Jeans for Genes Day (@jeansforgenesau)! This worthy cause raises money for the Children’s Medical Research Institute who are at the forefront of the fight to prevent childhood disease. So today we're all wearing these innovative Vivienne Westwood (@viviennewestwoodofficial) cut-off denim jeans with suspenders from her 1992 spring-summer collection! #NGADecArts #NGAInternational #JeansforGenes #JeansforGenesDay #Westwood #VivienneWestwood
Media got a sneak preview today of our 'Myth + Magic: art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea' exhibition which opens tomorrow. Over 80 spectacular objects on display - don't miss it!#NGAPacificArt #Sepik #PNG #Pacificart #artexhibition #exhibitionopening
#OnThisDay the one and only Andy Warhol was born in 1928. We thought we’d share this pic of him from the early 1970s taken by his friend and collaborator, the photographer Gerard Malanga who worked with him at The Factory. Which one of Warhol’s pop-culture driven works is your favourite? #AndyWarhol #Warhol #GerardMalanga #TheFactory #NGAPhotography #NGAInternational
#OnThisDay Algerian-French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent was born. This dress is from his 1960 autumn-winter collection when YSL was head of Dior following Christian Dior’s sudden and premature death in 1957 (YSL was only 21 years old!). He was such an incredible designer, renowned for his ready-to-wear collections. #YSL #YvesSaintLaurent #SaintLaurent #NGADecArts #NGAInternational
We’re wishing American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer a very happy birthday! Starting in the 1970s Holzer took her poignant and thought provoking messages to the streets on billboards, plaques and even clothing. #JennyHolzer #NGASculpture #NGAInternational
In this week’s exciting episode of the Story or Rama … We witness the final battle between our mighty hero Rama, his allies the monkey army and the bears, and the villain Ravana and his demon forces with their bulging eyes and fangs. Come in and see this epic battle for yourself on Level 1 in ‘The story of Rama: Indian miniatures from the National Museum, New Delhi’. It's FREE. #StoryofRama #Ramayana #NGAPaintings #NGAAsianArt #miniaturepaintings #Rama #Ravana
In recognition of Lipstick Day, we picked a work by Australian artist Margaret Dodd 'Holden with lipstick surfboards' 1977. During the 1970s and 80s Dodd was active within the South Australian feminist avant-garde. In the 60s in California USA she was introduced to the iconoclastic ‘funk’ ceramic style. The use of lipstick in art was a common element used by some female artists during the 70s and 80s and used at times in a subversive way to symbolise both sides of the feminist movement. As it's also Mick Jagger's birthday, it's seem unanimous, the lips have it today! #NGAAusArt #Ceramics #Holden #Surfboard #Lipstick #LipstickDay
Happy birthday Sir Mick Jagger! Born on this day in 1943. We celebrate the wild man of rock's 72nd birthday with a work by English fashion photographer David Bailey from the 1960s. While keeping warm he's still so very cool! #MickJagger #OnThisDay #Photography #BWPhotography #NGAphotography #RockGod #RockStar
Every dog has its day … and today is HOTDOG DAY! and we are doing it in style with one of Australian photographer Trent Parke’s hilarious Christmas album images. We always say you need a comfortable outfit to cook in ... and you can't get more comfy than a hotdog suit! #Hotdog #TrentParke #NGAPhotography #NGAAusArt
#OnThisDay we’re celebrating American Realist painter and printmaker Edward Hopper’s birthday. Born in 1882, he became famous for his often eerie or disconcerting images of American life. #EdwardHopper #Realism #NGAPrints #NGAInternational
It's Moon Day, gallery-stargazers! Can you believe the incredible detail in this work, especially given the date? It is a stereograph. First created in the 1840s, stereographs are a pair of nearly identical photographs placed on a card side-by-side. When viewed through a special viewer (stereoscope) they combine to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, the original 3D experience! #NGAPhotography #NGAInternational #MoonDay #FullMoon #Stereograph #3D
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