Essays

Fragile beauty: emu eggs in early Australian gold and silverware

By Marika Strohschnieder

‘Unfolding’ Japanese screens

By Ruth Shervington

A revelation: the X-ray of Herbert Badham’s Paint and morning tea (1937)

By Raye Collins

Hokusai and The great wave

By Mem Capp

Modern Australian Women

By Maria Quirk

Verso: revealing the secret life of paintings

By Laurie Benson & Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Susanna Highmore by Joseph Highmore: a father’s perspective

By Carl Villis

Picture perfect: Pictorialism and its processes

By Pip Morrison

La Petite, Evening Dress

By Danielle Whitfield, Susan van Wyk and Bronwyn Cosgrove

200 Years of Australian Fashion

By Paola Di Trocchio, Janice Breen Burns, Margaret Maynard, Rosalie Ham & Kym Ellery

A scrap album worthy of a fancy dress

By Kate Douglas

Illuminating: conservation of neon lights

By Trude Ellingsen

Brilliant vision: the making of Van Dyck’s dazzling portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny

By Carl Villis

The power of ‘women’s work’: craftivism

By Sigourney Jacks

The home front

By Kate Darian-Smith

Behind the lines

By Elena Taylor

Gallipoli

By Ted Gott

Prisoners and internees

By Petra Kayser

Fashioning identity: Madeline Green, Gwen John and Claude Cahun

By Maria Quirk

Dancing on the edge: Sonia Delaunay and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

By Ted Gott