Local Weekender: Melbourne
MELBOURNE WINTER MASTERPIECES 2022
The National Gallery of Victoria presents the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2022 exhibition -The Picasso Century. Featuring 80 of Pablo’s masterpieces alongside over 100 works by more than 50 of his contemporaries, drawn from premier French national collections, as well as the NGV Collection. The exhibition goes in depth into the career, artists, friends, poets, and intellectuals whom Picasso interacted with.
The exhibition is divided into two parts, spanning the entirety of NGV’s Ground Level and runs until 9 October.
The NGV is featuring…
Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection
Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection
Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India
Spectrum: An Exploration of Colour
Australian Art Collection
Top Arts 2022
including others…
Enter a timeless scene at this South Yarra restaurant with Latin-loved persuasions to revel amongst friends, siesta, or simply sit and pass the time. By day, stop by for a casual bite, coffee or fresh juice in the café. By night, stay for something a little more, a lively Latin bar and dining experience boasting a heavily vegan menu with vegetarian options.
234 Toorak Road, South Yarra
Flinders Lane Gallery
Flinders Lane Gallery is exhibiting a number of talented, smaller scale artists.
Ann Ryan’s ‘La Pouffe’ explores the exotic history of fashion - from 18th century hairstyles, to 60s & 70s fabric designs. Full of dream-like possibility, Ryan’s vibrant and highly detailed images take the viewer on a truly joyful journey of memorabilia and imagination. Ryan’s creative process starts with hunting and gathering, creative conversations with friends, and often happy accidents too. While gleaning interesting fabrics and discarded items from others, she finds endless inspiration in the textures, prints or colours she collects.The creative and inspired pieces will be open to the public starting 9 August and concluding 27 August.
Margaret Ackland’s ‘Balancing Act’ will feature between 9-27 August. For her forthcoming exhibition Ackland turns her gaze away from the daily news headlines and inward, toward more private moments of interiority. Capturing the forms and textures of domestic life, her masterful watercolours hum with visual energy and refracted possibilities.
Certain pieces are available for purchase*
At the end of a laneway in the Lower Parel neighbourhood of Mumbai sits the Bombay Canteen. Opened in 2015, the sprawling restaurant turned the idea of casual Indian dining on its head, its chef and owners bringing modern interpretations and global ingredients to classic dishes. Taking inspiration from the Canteen, the recently opened Bar Bombay adopts impeccable Indian Cuisine and a vibrant atmosphere to create a venue where the music is loud and bubbles cascade from the ceiling, and the wine list is fantastic and broad, especially suited for lovers of champagne and other French whites.
88 Flinders Lane
Learn DIY Garment Modification at Stationary
Stationary/Stationery is a new workshop at Hanover House designed to challenge this. As part of the Beta By Sth Bnk events program, participants will learn about the life cycle of a garment and reconsider the value we place on clothing by exploring new possibilities in lo-fi, DIY garment manufacturing and modification. Drawing on long traditions of using paper as a textile, particularly those found in Asian cultures, workshop participants will create their own paper interventions on second-hand garments using Japanese washi paper.
The workshop will be guided by industry experts Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran and Jake Nakashima-Edwards of DNJ Paper, a slow-fashion collective who creates wearable paper garments as a response to the social and ethical issues posed by the fashion industry.
Sat 27th August, 2022
12:00pm – 3:00pm
Hanover House
Level 4, 158 City Road, Southbank
Melbourne has always been exceedingly kind to kitchens that are willing to experiment and try something new, so you can expect Aru to continue making fascinating little twists on classic dishes without stumbling into novel territory. Nguyen is one of Melbourne’s most dependable chefs, and Aru’s tasting menu is just further proof.
268 Little Collins Street
New Venue: March
March by Peter Gunn. Food by one of Victoria’s best chefs and drinks from one of Melbourne’s favourite wine lists. March is the latest in a procession of acclaimed restaurants to announce casual bar spinoffs. The restaurant will feature shareable drinks-friendly snacks such as sake-steamed pipis or beef tartare with kimchi dressing and crackers. There'll also be a roster of larger mains.
Opening August 26.
90 Smith St, Collingwood, Vic
