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The Mad Square
Modernity in German Art 1910–37

Hurry, last days!

This week is your last opportunity to discover the chaos and creativity of modernism in Germany. The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910–37 closes on 4 March, so be sure to visit this comprehensive exhibition of German modernism's avant-garde.

Our voluntary guides host in-depth tours of the exhibition each day. Check our website for dates and times.

Join NGV Members and receive a FREE exhibition ticket.

An Art Gallery of New South Wales
travelling exhibition.

Dates:

25 Nov 2011 –
04 Mar 2012

Location:

NGV International

Program Highlights:
Short Course: The Mad Square	Dates & Info
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Fred Kruger
Intimate Landscapes

This exhibition provides a rare opportunity to view photographs by Fred Kruger (1831–88), a German migrant to Victoria whose compelling images draw us into an intimate experience of the landscape and life at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station.

Dates:

04 Feb 2012 –
27 May 2012

Location:

NGV Australia

Program Highlights:
Short Talks Afternoon: Behind the photograph	Dates & Info
In Conversation: Dr Isobel Crombie and Daniel Browning	Dates & Info
Go to What's On

Program Highlights

Workshop: Bush Couture – Colouring in fashion with Linda Jackson	Dates & Info
Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Hannah Gadsby – Mary contrary	Dates & Info
Lecture Series: Royalty and art	Dates & Info
In Conversation: Thomas Demand – The Dailies	Dates & Info
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Goodbye Summer
Farewell Summer with a free afternoon of art & music outdoors. Kick back to some of Melbourne's finest musical talent in our picturesque sculpture garden. Think picnic rugs, tasty food & drink, a RRR live broadcast & DJs in the dappled shade. Performing will be Teeth and Tongue, The Orbweavers and Geoffrey O’Connor. Sun 4 Mar, 12 – 4.15pm Full details on the NGV website.


NGV Studio: Fluoresce	Win tickets to MTC’s Red
Immerse yourself in the vibrancy at NGV Studio as Fluoresce collective transform the space with murals, craft-based processes, painting and projection, all engaging fluorescent colour. The artist collective will be in the NGV studio each day until 8 March.	Following a sell-out London season and a Broadway run that won six Tony awards, Red finally comes to Melbourne. This fascinating portrait of tormented abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, sees the artist’s work take centrestage. His five sublime expanses of red, destined for the walls of the exclusive Four Seasons restaurant arguably formed the biggest commission of the modern art world, but were they his undoing? For your chance to win one of three double passes to Red on Wednesday 28 March at 8pm, simply email your details along with the answer to this question: For which screenplay did John Logan recently receive an Oscar nomination? Playing at the MTC Theatre, Sumner from 22 March to 5 May. Book at mtc.com.au or call 8688 0800.

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Image Credits

Rudolf Schlichter
Tingel tangel 1919–20 (detail)
Private collection
© Rudolf Schlichter Estate, courtesy Galerie Alvensleben, Munich

August Sander
Secretary at West German radio in Cologne 1931, printed by August Sander in the 1950s
Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, August Sander Archiv, Cologne
© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Cologne. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney

Fred KRUGER
Wreck of the ship George Roper, Point Lonsdale (1883)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Mrs Beryl M. Curl, 1979

Last Day of Summer event, 2010

Red promotional image, courtesy of MTC
Photo: Earl Carter

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