Discover more about Japanese design through the works of three designers – Sori Yanagi, George Nakashima and Isamu Noguchi with Amanda Dunsmore, NGV Senior Curator, International Decorative Arts & Antiquitie
NGV Senior Curator of Asian Art Wayne Crothers discusses centuries of ceramics in Japan, and their influence on kimono textiles.
In the first half of the twentieth century, Japan’s traditional art and aesthetics interacted with European life and culture resulting in a pulsating era of Japanese Modernism and the creation…
This December, NGV celebrates the illustrious career of iconic contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama with a world-premiere blockbuster exhibition spanning her eight-decade practice, including the global unveiling of the artist’s most…
Presented as part of the 2023 NGV Triennial, Megacities is an NGV-commissioned presentation that invited ten leading photographers to capture the urban environment of ten global megacities – cities with…
The powerful force of nature is made tangible in Liquid skies/Gyrwynt (meaning ‘hurricane’ in Welsh), which depicts a composite of multiple infrared satellite images of hurrica
Sori Yanagi was a pioneer of design, with his work championing traditional Japanese aesthetics, design principles and architecture that have resulted in him being celebrated to this day.
One of the most compelling contemporary artists working today, Camille Henrot’s practice encompasses a range of diverse media including sculpture, drawing, video and installatio
Botanical pavilion, 2020, is a collaboration between Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Australian artist Geoff Nees.
At the age of just 25, artist Taniguchi Fumie painted Preparing to go out, one of the most important works of her career.
Joined by special guest and renowned Australian artist Rosslynd Piggott, this episode focuses on Piggott’s work Unfolding flower-cloud space n
Explore the enormous social changes that took place in the nineteenth-century and how these are reflected in the art and design of the period, from the industrial revolution to William…
The first how-to episode is inspired by Japanese ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of floral arrangement.
Benno Tempel, Director of Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and Cathy Leahy, NGV Curator, discuss the legacy and popularity of Dutch artist M. C.
Oki Sato, Founder of nendo, explains how the Japanese design studio borrowed M. C.