The Gallery’s major show,Ngura Pulka – Epic Country,featuring artists from the APY Art Centre Collective,has been postponed indefinitely.
As important to the nation as Medicare,the national gallery’s building is in disrepair and urgent funds are needed to protect the collection.
Museums and galleries have begun dusting off shelved programs following the federal government’s half-a-billion funding package.
The federal government’s funding injection is the most important investment in the museum since its opening in 1982,its director says.
The shameful neglect of the NGA reflects a broader hostility towards the arts within our body politic.
After nearly three decades of neglect the National Gallery of Australia must be fully restored to pride of place.
Dame Quentin Bryce has joined leading artists to call for a fix to the financial troubles engulfing the National Gallery of Australia.
It may have taken 10 years to become apparent,but the National Gallery of Australia is now bearing the costs of the ridiculously named “efficiency dividend”.
Patricia Piccinini,Cressida Campbell and John Olsen have called on the federal government to secure long-term funding for the national museum.
Up till now,the major political parties have “combined” to convince the electorate that a vote for a minor party,or even worse an independent,was a wasted vote. But democracy in Australia is changing.
New images reveal the National Gallery of Australia has fallen into such a state of neglect that buckets and towels are needed during downpours.