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.

In 1990 Henson was commissioned by the Paris Opera House to produce a series of photographs inspired by either the music or environment of the opera.

When the NGV’s Felton Bequest adviser Frank Rinder recommended the purchase of this sombre yet arresting painting, he warned the Gallery’s trustees that: ‘It would cause considerable disappointment were there…

Albrecht Dürer’s personification of the melancholic temperament in this print, one of his most famous works, shows a figure deep in contemplation, holding a compass and surrounded by an hourglass…

Once celebrated, but since forgotten, a significant painting by Melbourne artist Constance Jenkins was recently displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria.

This unusual daguerreotype features two bare-knuckled young American pugilists standing in the balanced boxing stance.

For ninety years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to one of the most intriguing of all early Netherlandish paintings.

This research began with a button. This button, at the collar of the elegant gentleman’s silk Coat,

Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.

While sumo wrestlers originally competed in sponsored tournaments within the grounds of shrines and temples in Japan, by the early 1780s sumo wrestling had become an integral part of Japanese…