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Every thing in its right place
The Sarah Sze exhibition is extremely fragile. Please do not touch the works. Children must be accompanied by an adult and we would appreciate it if you could take them by the ha
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Imperial fashion victims in provincial Egypt: re-dating Egyptian mummy potraits
During the first three centuries of the Christian era, funerary artisans in the Roman province of Egypt produced a unique genre of mummy covering which reflected the multicultural society that existed there…
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The Multiple Worlds of Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits
It does not seem unlikely to me that there is a total book on some shelf of the universe; I pray to the unknown gods that a man – just one,…
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No Form Can Be Spatial, The origins of Lucio Fontana’s Spatial concept
In the first half of the 1960s, the Argentine–Italian artist Lucio Fontana created Spatial concept (fi
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Veronese and friends: a technical examination of Nobleman between active and contemplative life
The evaluation of paintings relies on many approaches. Assessments and judgements are sometimes made, however, without direct observation and at other times without consideration of a work’s material cont
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A Knight in Shining Armour, a Virgin – Uccello’s Melbourne Saint George and the dragon and Oxford Annunciation
Paintings by famous early Renaissance artists are rare in Australian collections, so the realisation that the Saint George and the dragon, c.1430 (fig.
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The Riddle of the Sphinx: An Attic red-figure lekythos
In 1980 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a very fine Attic red-figure lekythos by the Achilles Painter (fig. 1
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A Paestan Vase by Python: In memory of Dale Trendall
About eighty kilometres south of Naples, a traveller will come upon the extensive ruins of an ancient Greek town with an impressive fortification wall some 4.
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A Life Revealed: Emil Todt, a German sculptor in nineteenth-century Melbourne
Emil Todt, the German sculptor whose plaster figure group The gold diggers (fig.
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Shark People: Djapu painting and the Miny’tji Buku Larrŋgay Collection
The Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land has produced some of the most masterful Australian painters of the mid- to late-twentieth century.
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An Orthodox Master and an Individualist: Wang Yuanqi and Daoji
Wang Yuanqi (1642–1715) and Daoji or Shitao (1642–1707) were born in the same year but led very different li
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Brook Andrew: Ethical portraits and ghost-scapes
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
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MaterialByProduct’s Outfit comprising couture excesses
Melbourne-based label MaterialByProduct was founded by RMIT graduates Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald.
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 6
On Top of the World: Flags for Melbourne is a public art project presenting artists’ flags designed for 16 flagpoles across the City of Melbourne, and concurrently displayed in the…
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 56
Hotham Street Ladies (HSL) are a group of five women whose work is rooted in their experiences of sharing a run-down but much-loved house in Hotham Street, Collingwood.