Essays

Matsumoto, plants and the origins of avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama

Akira Shibutami

Fashion in Tudor and Stuart portraiture

Breeze Barrington

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Officer and waitress

Dr Ted Gott

Monyo 紋様 Exploring traditional kimono patterns

Sala Okabe

The art of imitation

Dr Jenny Hall

Kimono through the ages

Wayne Crothers

My heart

Michael Gentle

Top Arts 2025

John Parkinson

Celebrating 10 years of the Rigg Design Prize

Simone LeAmon

It’s a dog’s life

Susan van Wyk

Framing the future: The growth of Australian houses

Dr Timothy Moore

Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie

Myles Russell-Cook

A closer look: Designing Cats and Dogs in Art & Design

National Gallery of Victoria

A closer look: Designing the publication for Pharaoh

National Gallery of Victoria

Reimagining Birrarung

National Gallery of Victoria

Rembrandt’s watermarked papers at the National Gallery of Victoria

Bonnie Hearn

From Cologne to Melbourne: The watermark collection of Canon Ludwig von Büllingen

Louise Wilson

Amorous soldiers and Amazons: queer tales from antiquity

Dr Ted Gott

Sites of refuge, connection, creation, resistance and loss: the queer bar and nightclub in the twentieth century

Meg Slater

Afrotopia

Christine Ajudua