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Top Arts 2019: celebrating twenty-five years
Top Arts celebrates exceptional art from Victoria’s young and emerging artists who have completed their studies of Art or Studio Arts as part of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)…
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The Lashmar family, 1857–58: emigration, photography and family ties
When, in 2004, the National Gallery of Victoria purchased a mid nineteenth-century Australian family portrait taken by the South Australian photographer William Millington Nixon, the sitters’ names were unknow
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‘Rich, effective pictorial pageantry’: Augustus John’s Rt. Hon. Harold Chaloner Dowdall, Lord Mayor of Liverpool and his sword-bearer, 1909
In mid May 1938 the then director of the National Gallery of Victoria, J. S. MacDonald, wrote disparagingly of the striking 1909 portrait Rt. Hon.
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Ai Weiwei Letgo room
Letgo room, 2015, is a major site-specific installation by leading Chinese artist, activist and public intellectual Ai Weiwei.
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Modern Australian Women: Works from a Private Collection
The turn of the twentieth century was a crucial time for women artists in Australia.
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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