Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive presents stories that celebrate film
Spend two days in the 1960s and discover why grandad is always going on about his old camera!
Architect and designer Derek Wrigley in conversation with Roger Benjamin, Professor of Art History, University of Sydney
Drawing on the provocation of the three exhibitions in CMAG’s design series, panellists reflect on the changing perception of plastic – from wonder material to an environmental scourge. Can new formulations contribute to a sustainable future?
Lucy Trench, Board Member of the Sidney Nolan Trust UK, will present an illustrated talk on Nolan’s life in the UK
Interior Designer, Marion Hall Best was an enthusiastic supporter of emerging Australian artists, including a then up and coming Sidney Nolan.
When television arrived in 1956 it caused profound social change and introduced Australians to a new world of entertainment with series imported from the USA and elsewhere
Join ANU Heritage Advisor Amy Jarvis on a stroll around the ANU Acton Campus
Join CMAG and PhotoAccess for a hands-on workshop exploring how plastic revolutionised photography.
Meredith Hinchliffe is one of CMAG’s longest standing donors. Through her annual financial gift, CMAG has been able to acquire significant works by designers, artists and craftspeople of the Canberra region.
Film historian Andrew Pike will present one of Australia's great film classics, screened in its entirety
This exhibition is inspired by the Empress Joséphine, Napoléon Bonaparte’s first wife, and the extraordinary collection she amassed at the Château de Malmaison from 1800 to 1814.
Explore the Total Design exhibition then join architect and designer Derek Wrigley for refreshments in the CMAG foyer
Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey has become synonymous with the high impact aesthetics of Scandinavian and American modernism, yet long before the film’s launch, Australian designer Marion Hall Best created avant-garde ‘space-age’ interiors
Alongside his practice as an artist and art-historian, Nigel Lendon has been an inveterate and purposeful collector of, amongst other things over 200 plastic cameras
Join Nigel Lendon, artist, art historian and curator, for an insight into his collection of plastic cameras
Described as electrifying, vital and avant-garde, Marian Hall Best was the most flamboyant Australian interior designer of the 1950s through to the 1970s