From 30 September 2011 to 12 February 2012 the National Gallery of Victoria and Museum Victoria presented Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.
Museums, archives and libraries are the repositories of stories.
David Hurlston, Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria: Nostalgia for Obsolete Futures is an amazing exhibition.
The question of the extent to which porcelain figures were considered sculpture – that is, figural works bearing an independent meaning, viewed and engaged with as such, rather than objects which…
Paul Strand was born of Bohemian parents in New York City in 1890.
The illuminated manuscript known as the Aspremont Hours which was purchased at Christie’s in 1922 for the National Gallery of Victoria warrants attention on several counts.1M
Of the many artists who worked in Australia after its discovery by Cook in 1770, Augustus Earle is one of the most versatile and interesting of the early ones
Tom Roberts’s large canvas, Shearing the rams (fig. 1) is popularly seen today as an archetypal vision of Australian pastoral li
Nothing is more exciting for the lover of art than the totally unexpected appearance of a masterpiece by a great artist. That two such masterpieces by J. M. W
The Anne Schofield Collection of costumes and accessories was purchased in 1974 with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria.
The Clavey family by Arthur Devis is the fourth example of the conversation piece to be acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, the others being the large conversations by…
One of the aspects of the last two decades of the 19th century is the emergence in art of new shoots of movements and styles, which were to come into…
Brian Finemore was one of the handful of students who enrolled in the first year (1948) of the Fine Arts course in the University of Melbourne, so that this brief…
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
The photography collection was recently enriched by the gift from Mrs Beryl M.