Buddhism was introduced to Japan in the sixth century AD and flourished under the patronage of the imperial prince Shōtoku (574–622) and the establishment of the great temples of Hōryū-ji…

For millennia, First Peoples mentorship has been a core practice for knowledge transfer and cultural preservation.

In Chinese culture, the colour red is auspicious and symbolises good fortune and high status, among other attributes.

Handmade by artist Sheila Hicks’s small studio in Paris, Nowhere to go, 2022, is nonetheless epic in scal

One of a series of essays featuring the answers to questions posed to artists participating in the Megacities project of NGV Triennial 2023 In this third decade of the twenty-first…

This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. We love to receive flowers.

The enigmatic Giorgio de Chirico said of his work that he was ‘painting that which cannot be seen

In his book The Soul of a Tree, George Nakashima laid bare his deep kinship and reverence for nature, describing a tree’s nobility and its new life at the hands…

A life between: the lives of influential twentieth century designers George Nakashima and Isamu Noguchi ran parallel to each other.

Nestled within the permanent collection of French Impressionist paintings at NGV International, for the first time, the work of Japanese artists of the nineteenth century take centre stage to contextualise…

‘Study nature, love nature, stay close to natur

Art Nouveau is a decorative style that thrived  between 1890 and 1914 throughout Europe and the United States

A recent addition to the NGV’s collection of historical textiles is a bedcover from England, c. 171

Popular during Japan’s Edo period (1600–1868), erotic shunga (春画; literally ‘spring’ pictures) served a range of purposes, from art and entertainment to self-pleasure aids and sex-educational material for young cou

Joy Hester, a key member of the Heide circle of artists and the only woman in the Angry Penguins group, is best known for highly expressive figurative drawings, typically executed…