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The Satirical Eye: comedy and critique from Hogarth to Daumier
A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, The Satirical Eye: comedy and critique from Hogarth to Daumier will present highlights in satirical art from England, Spain and France,…
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Queering the family portrait: Jacopo Amigoni’s portrait of Farinelli and friends
When Charles Burney, the English music historian, visited the famous singer Carlo Broschi, called Farinelli, at his villa in Bologna in 1770, he observed: ‘He seems very much to regret…
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A hard day’s night: conserving David McDiarmid’s collaged works on paper
David McDiarmid was an Australian artist and activist whose work across many media records his experiences as a queer man in the late twentieth century.
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Online Course: Art and Agency
This course commenced on 28 June. Enrolments have been extended to midnight on Sunday 11 July. Once enrolled you can start the course at any time.
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Southwold, Suffolk
A largely self-taught artist, whose work received more praise in France than in his own country during his lifetime, Edwards was a pioneer of plein-air painting in Britain.
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Fragile identities: eighteenth-century British portraits in porcelain
The European mastery of a true hard-paste porcelain technology in Dresden in 1708 was a major scientific, technical and cultural achievement.
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Walter Sickert exercised a significant influence upon British art in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Walter Sickert exercised a significant influence upon British art in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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2018 Annual Appeal
THANK YOU 2018 Annual Appeal Salvador Dalí’s Trilogy of the desert: Mirage 1946 We are delighted to announce that Salvador Dalí’s Trilogy of the desert: Mirage 1946 is now formally…
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The Clavey family by Arthur Devis
The Clavey family by Arthur Devis is the fourth example of the conversation piece to be acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, the others being the large conversations by…
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The Synnot children by Joseph Wright of Derby
Among various anecdotes narrated by Pliny the Elder that reveal the illusionistic skills of the Greek painters, the one recounting how Zeuxis was deluded by the drapery painted by his rival Parrhasios…
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DUH-HEAD!
TASTE , an installation by Aleks Danko explores the idea of beauty and who decides what good taste is and how an art audience can be DUH-HEADS!
Children receive an Aleks Danko mask and are invited to respond to the art works on display by drawing their DUH-HEAD!
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Robert Buss, The monopolist and Charles Dickens
In April 1877 Archibald Michie, during his term as agent-general in London for Victoria (1873–79), acquired at auction for the National Gallery of Victoria, for the moderate sum of 18…
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The Satirical Eye
Comedy and critique from Hogarth to Daumier
This exhibition presents satirical art from England, Spain and France, focusing on the period 1730–1870. Drawn from the NGV’s extensive Prints & Drawings Collection, the works range from political satires which were aimed directly at prominent public figures, to scenarios that highlight fashions, fads and social manners as subjects of mock