A cache of letters written by Clara Driscoll, head designer at New York’s Tiffany Studio at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, captures a story that still resonates…
Clara Driscoll led the Tiffany studios Women’s Glass Cutting Department and designed more than 30 lamps during her career, including the Wisteria, table lamp, one of the most expensive designs…
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…
Art Nouveau is a decorative style that thrived between 1890 and 1914 throughout Europe and the United States
PROJECT Diedrick Brackens’s works, which draw on European and West African textile traditions and are made from hand-dyed cotton, use weaving as a way of storytellin
Earth and fire represent the two elements that produce a ceramic object. Without the other they are simply components; together they create both practical objects and pieces of art.
With a repertoire curated in response to The Picasso Century, musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) perform a concert under the iconic stained-glass ceiling of the Great Hall inspired…
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The early twentieth century was a period of radical social, technological and creative ferment which saw women innovate and experiment with nascent creative spaces such as photography, design and modernism….
Levels 3-8 Join an NGV Educator for a short and lively introduction to one work from the NGV Collection and exhibitions.
The style emerged in France and Belgium in the late 1880s and in Germany around the turn of the twentieth century and is widely known as the beginning of modernism….
The National Gallery of Victoria is unique amongst the public galleries of Australia in its efforts to build up a fine and representative collection of decorative arts