What has the highlight been of Top Arts 2016? Being honoured to have my artworks exhibited in the NGV and to be involved in the top arts process as a…
Porcelain sculpture may be considered the quintessential eighteenth-century European art form.
We interviewed Julia McFarlane from the band Twerps, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 12 February 2016.
In the early 1760s, when Joshua Reynolds painted this portrait of the young Susanna Gale, daughter of a British sugar planter in Jamaica, his success as a society portraitist was…
A suite of small sculptures lie upon offcuts of aging, discoloured foam.
From the late 1980s until the mid 2000s, celebrated French-American artist Louise Bourgeois produced numerous ‘cells’ – closed environments made from industrial materials into which she placed various found objects…
Maharana Sarup Singh ruled the Rajput kingdom of Mewar, centred on Udaipur, from 1842 to 1861.
The Enclave, 2012–13, is a visceral and moving work by Irish artist Richard Mosse filmed in the Democratic Republic of Cong
In 1847 the English-born photographer Douglas Kilburn opened Melbourne’s first commercial photographic studi
What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.
When E. Phillips Fox returned to Melbourne in late 1892 after five years studying and working in France, he encountered a city in the grip of economic depression.
There is something familiar yet unsettling about Yvonne Todd’s Approximation of Tricia Martin, 200
Gloves are highly evocative but also ambivalent. They serve to protect and conceal, attract and deflect, mimicking the human skin beneath with the embellished borrowed skin of another creature.
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
Orang Hilang presents a portrait of an ageing man, his face adorned with adhesive bandages bearing the names of missing Indonesian pro-democracy political activists.