Driving You Mad, Driving You Crazy

11 Jan 2016

You think art is stuffy? Wrong!!

Arts, Community

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Edgar Degas: Racehorses in a landscape 1894
pastel on paper 47.9 x 62.9 cm Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on deposit at Museo ThyssenBornemisza, Madrid Lemoisne 1145 (CTB.1981.11)

NGV curator Laurie Benson joins David and Sue to talk about what’s on at our gallery – the glories of past exhibitions, and those to come, especially Degas, the 2016 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition coming up in June.

But right now it’s summer –
late opening until 8pm at NGV-I all through January
–(5pm at NGV-A);
Friday night music (tickets needed, 6-10pm);
the amazing Andy Warhol — Ai Weiwei exhibition;
and lots of free talks so you can become familiar with our gallery’s own permanent collection.

Ai Weiwei: Chandelier with Restored Han Dynasty Lamps for the Emperor 2
Photo: MMC

This Wednesday 13 Jan. at 6pm it’s Laurie himself talking about the newly acquired painting Great Dancing Pair, 1923, by Erich Heckel.
It’s pretty special, not only because it’s the first painting by a German Expressionist to enter the collection of the NGV.

Check what’s on, there’s heaps!, and get yourself there.