NGV Magazine - May/June 2026 issue 58

In the May–June issue of NGV Magazine, our cover story features Ragnar Kjartansson: Mercy – a new exhibition of work by Icelandic contemporary artist Ragnar Kjartansson, presenting works spanning more than two decades. Dr Adelina Modesti, University of Melbourne, writes on the NGV Collection of Italian Baroque works by Bolognese artist Elisabetta Sirani and we share exciting new acquisitions to the NGV Collection from Surrealist Meret Oppenheim’s Eichhörnchen / Écureuil / Squirrel, 1960/1969 and American artist Benton Murdoch Spruance’s The 30s–Windshield, 1939. Dr Ted Gott writes on the exceptional twentieth- century American artist, Agnes Martin (1912–2004), in particular the major painting Untitled #16, 1995, as this year’s NGV Annual Appeal focus.