Japan in 1920s and 1930s was a time when traditional art and aesthetics merged with European life and culture.
LIDO: SAT 14 & FRI 20 MAR, 7PM CLASSIC: SUN 15 & THU 19 MAR, 7PM The third in Baichwal and Burtynsky’s epic environmental trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes (2006)…
Presented by VAULT Magazine Publishing and the curatorial; are in many ways opposite – one is anchored in permanence ; the other is temporal and shifting – but then again…
Japanese Modernism explores the increasing socially liberated status of Japanese women in the 1920s and 1930s.
Chinese lanterns were invented in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 AD). Originally used as lamps, they are now commonly displayed in homes and the streets of China to celebrate festivals…
DJ Silky Jazz celebrates Lunar New Year in the NGV Garden with art-pop, jazz, new wave sounds and soundtracks from China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and beyond.
Throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, Japan’s arts, crafts and design have been heralded for their high level of technical skill, sophisticated use of materials and simple design aestheti
Australia finds itself in an increasingly precarious position. The relationship between Australia’s traditional ally, the United States, and its largest trading partner, China, continues its precipitous declin
Explore the evolution of redwares, a form of earthenware pottery, from their humblest beginnings in antiquity, from bricks to terra sigillata, through the Yixing wares of China, to the cult…
In celebration of International Youth Day on Sunday 11 August, the NGV is offering children and teens free access to 2019 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibitions Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang….
China’s president Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and assertiveness that few anticipated when he came to power in 201
October: The Unrealized Century, directed by Shanshan Xia and produced by 33 Studio, follows one of the world’s most exciting contemporary artists Cai Guo-Qiang to Moscow for the launch of…
NGV curator Ewan McEoin leads audiences on a tour of three installations at the NGV for Open House Melbourne, including John Wardle Architect’s Somewhere Other, SO – IL: Viewing China…
Explore China’s ambitious One Belt One Road project and how it is transforming the regio
Visiting scholars from the Shaanxi province in China, where the terracotta warriors were first discovered in 1974, present a series of talks on the Qin and Han Dynasties.