Rather than trying to capture 200 years of Australian fashion in one fell swoop, we asked a curator, a journalist, an historian, a novelist and a contemporary designer to share…
In 1986, spirited Warlpiri women of Lajamanu, a small community in Gurindji Country on the edge of the Tanami Desert, in the Northern Territory, painted a groundbreaking series of gouaches…
For as long as humans have been engaging in cultural and symbolic practice, the making and wearing of jewellery and body adornments have been central to the expression of identity,…
Introduction In 1989 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired two nineteenth-century Tibetan scroll paintings (thangkas) depicting Tibetan Buddhist lamas: Yuntonpa with Begtse Chen (fig.
Guy Stuart is a Melbourne-based artist, born in Canberra in 1942.
Curators at the NGV work within their collection areas – such as Photography, Contemporary Art, Asian Art and International Art – to research and produce interesting and creative exhibitions.
The Department of Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, in recent years has acquired three important Indian paintings and a related drawing belonging to the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605)R
The artist must be … encouraged to speak freely in the ‘language’ which he feels is essential to him for his self-expression, and we must try to learn the l
When Everard Studley Miller died aged sixty-nine on 5 July 1956, the major beneficiary of his £262 940 estate was the National Gallery of Victor
On 3 June 1960 the National Gallery of Victoria’s deputy director, Gordon Thomson, announced to the public the Felton Bequests’ Committee recent acquisition of Henry Moore’s Draped seated woman (fig
Senior Curator, Indigenous Art, Judith Ryan, spoke to Kent Morris about the Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community Pilot Progra
Last week, over 100 keen educators from schools, universities and other settings gathered at the NGV to hear the very latest update on Melbourne Now.
When Isabella d’Este – marchesa of Mantua and one of the greatest collectors of her day – died in 1539, her belongings were divided among her heirs according to contemporary…
Introduction The subject of this essay is one of the most important travelling exhibitions ever to arrive in Australia, Two Decades of American Painting (henceforth, Two Decades), a large exhibition…