In 1877 an engaging portrait drawing of a child by William Dyce (fig. 1) was given to the National Gallery of Victoria by a little-known collector, Duncan Elphinstone Cooper.
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
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.
The Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Fashion Gift is a microcosm of the world of haute couture and Parisian fashion from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.
NGV Australia will host two complementary exhibitions that explore Australia’s complex colonial history and the art that emerged during and in response to this perio
Tipo Passe is a series that addresses questions of history, culture and identity.
Tipo Passe is a series that addresses questions of history, culture and identity.
Guo Pei began sewing at a young age and quickly developed a passion for dressmaking.
Tipo Passe is a series that addresses questions of history, culture and identity.
Cover-up! recreates the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe, from the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, where a breeze rising from a subway grate provocatively lifts her dress.
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…
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…
In 2004 the National Gallery of Victoria was gifted an early seventeenth-century English painted cabinet (fig. 1).
Australia’s rich quilt heritage, resplendent with imagery of native flora and fauna, early coats of arms and motifs of daily colonial life, is revealed in Making the Australian Quilt: 1800–1950R
We interviewed Ngaiire, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 1 April 2016. Describe your sound in 5 words or less? Ever evolving extension of myse