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Private pleasures: an example of French photographic erotica
A little later a thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peep-holes of the stereoscope, as though they were the attic-windows of the infinit
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Important painting by twentieth-century French master Pierre Soulages
This is the first acquisition made through the Eugénie Crawford Bequest, which is specifically for paintings by artists of the second generation of the School of Par
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Akira Isogawa V French Lavender Brownies
Working class girl For many of us the iconic white Bonds athletic singlet top conjures up images of burly sun-bronzed Aussie men and working class roots.
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Napoleon, Emperor of the French and Charlemagne, King of the Franks
Although a thousand years (literally) separate Napoleon and Charlemagne, they have a lot in common: both ruled France; both created empires that united much of Western Europe; both crossed the…
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Portrait of Venice: Majestic Murano
A journey through the complex history of Venetian glass
Murano is, in some ways, a mini Venice. It’s bisected by its own Grand Cana
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The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin was a French artist who trained for a short period in Paris but felt drawn to Italian art more than the art of his own country.
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The Holy Family of Francis I, St Elizabeth, Saint John and the infant Christ
Giulio Romano
This work was produced in Raphael’s workshop and is a fragment of a cartoon used in the execution of one of the artist’s late painting commissi
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Rembrandt’s watermarked papers at the National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) holds 140 prints by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, a growing collection of the artist’s intaglio works that began over 130 years ag
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From Cologne to Melbourne: The watermark collection of Canon Ludwig von Büllingen
In 1994, a rare watermark album assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by Canon Ludwig von Büllingen (1771–1848), entered the collection of the N
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Sites of refuge, connection, creation, resistance and loss: the queer bar and nightclub in the twentieth century
Borders were marked and real; vice laws, police, and organised crime representatives controlled our movements in and out of our ‘countries
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When Crowley Met Balson
We find the path of an abstract painter an exceedingly difficult one here in Australia.
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Surrealism and Design
Surrealism is much more than an aesthetic. It’s really an attitude, or a set of attitude
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The fold
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Hoda Afshar uncovers and unveils.
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The door the bone dress opened
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert
Amedeo Modigliani
Born in Barcelona in 1890, the Catalan artist Manuel Humbert was twenty-six when he posed for this arresting portrait, painted in Paris by the immensely gifted, but self-afflicted Amedeo Modigliani….