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Interview with Polly Borland
Polly Borland: Polyverse presents new and recent work by the celebrated Australian-born, Los Angeles–based artis
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Collection Appeal – Part three | Salvador Dalí’s Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946
In this third and final chapter on Salvador Dalí, his life and the painting Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946, NGV Senior Fundraising Officer, Caroline Buckley, explores Dalí’s influence and…
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Collection Appeal – Part two | Salvador Dalí’s Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946
In our second feature on Salvador Dalí and his work, Dr Ted Gott, NGV Senior Curator of International Art, looks closely at Dalí’s Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946, and…
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Thomas Woolner Farquhar Cole
Thomas Woolner was born in the small market town of Hadleigh, Suffolk, in 1825, and commenced studies at London’s Royal Academy in 1842 while working as an apprentice to sculptor…
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Oscar Domínguez’s La couturière: contexts, sources and symbols
Introduction In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria made a significant addition to its growing and increasingly important collection of Surreal objects with the acquisition of Óscar Domínguez’s La couturière…
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Donald Laycock: Star cycle
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
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‘Le nostre done cornute’
Dress and ornament in the Melbourne profile portrait ‘Le nostre done cornute, cum tanti balci … tanti rechami’ (‘Our horn-wearing ladies, with their many balzi … many embroideries’) Ludovico…
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A fresh profile
A new examination of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance Profile portrait of a lady For the past sixty years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to Profile…
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Ross Coulter: Audience
A group of people stand in an empty gallery. The house lights are on and the walls are bare. There is no art on display.
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Work of the Week – Edgar Degas ‘The Bellelli family’ 1867
INSPIRED IDEAS: Explore the portrait Degas is celebrated for his penetrating psychological portraits
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Work of the Week – Edgar Degas, ‘René De Gas’ 1855
INSPIRED IDEAS – Explore the portrait René, you’re such a poseur… “René used to tell us how no sooner had he put his books down when he got in from…
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Conservation live: the John Herbert Public Conservation Project
The acquisition in 1878 of John Herbert’s painting Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law, c.1872–78, was an important moment in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collecting hi
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Tracey Emin The passion of your smile
As an artist who places her own life at the centre of her practice, Tracey Emin is renowned for working within the historical lineages of expressionism.
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Pieter Hugo Green Point Common, Cape Town
Situated precariously outside the protective arm of Signal Hill, trapped between the outer mountainous circle of Cape Town and the vast curve of the Atlantic Ocean, sits the idyllic but exposed…
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Unrolled: John Rogers Herbert and the monumental Moses in the National Gallery of Victoria
In November 2014, in the National Gallery of Victoria’s storage facility in North Melbourne, a large canvas was unrolled for the first time in more than twenty-five yea