To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…

At the Sotheby’s sale of the Pringsheim collection held in London on 7 and 8 June 1939, the Felton Bequest acquired for the National Gallery of Victoria, on the advice…

‘Australians will stand beside the mother country to help and defend her to the last man and the last shillin

In his 1956 autobiography, Christian Dior reflected on ‘the miracle of fashion’, commenting that ‘in the world today haute couture is one of the last repositories of the marvellous and…

Florence Ada Fuller is an artist scarcely recognised today.

The German artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt is internationally renowned for his visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving-image artworks.

In the fifteenth century, on the Venetian island of Murano, a revolution in the manufacture of European glass was unfolding.

This essay was commissioned for and originally published in the Nov/Dec 2018 issue of NGV Magazine.

This exhibition of 130 important pieces of Japanese Imari porcelain at the NGV has been enabled by a generous donation from Mrs Pauline Gandel, an enthusiastic benefactor of the NGV…

Donald Laycock has lived a life as an Australian abstract painter. He is duly recognised as a major ‘art historical’ figure in twentieth-century Australian modern

Buddhism is the oldest of all the major religions practised around the world in the twenty-first century.

The celebrated nineteenth-century British artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) is well represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Victor

On 20 August 1968 the National Gallery of Victoria’s much-heralded building on St Kilda Road opened amid a fanfare of publicity acclaiming the completion of what all agreed was a…

We interviewed Angel Deradoorian, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 15 April 2016

Blue: Alchemy of a Colour explores Asian and European works of art from the seventh century to the present inspired by the colour blue.