To understand the present, we need to look at the past.

In his 1954 autobiography Leda and the Goose, Tristram Hillier was to recall how in 1931, during a hiking trip with friends across the Pyrenees, he had his ‘first glimpse of Spain which seemed to me like a return to China … No grass, no trees, but only rock and tawny earth that stretched away to the shimmering horizon like a lion’s pelt ’. He especially loved the translucent light found in the country’s south, which he felt was invested with ‘a dramatic quality, both noble and cruel’. His Spanish landscapes, like Andalusian farm, 1949, are charged with electric energy and poised in breathless and eer

Next month, 190 million Indonesians will vote for their president and parliament in one of the largest single-day elections the world has ever seen.

EXHIBITION TIMES: 14 – 24 MAR, 10AM–6PM DAILY Melbourne-based ceramicist and lighting designer Claire Lehmann industrialises porcelain in her lighting installation at Elk Little Col

Does our waste still go to China? What can and cannot get recycled? Does our recycling even get recycled and what can we do about it? Prof Michele Acuto (Connected…

The urbanisation of China is the largest and most rapid city-making exercise in history.

In a dual presentation of Chinese art and culture past and present, the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria presents China’s ancient Terracotta Warriors alongside a…

Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality & Cai Guo-Qiang: The Transient Landscape, the 2019 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition is a dual presentation of Chinese art and culture past and present.

In a dual presentation of Chinese art and culture past and present, the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria presents China’s ancient Terracotta Warriors alongside a…

Letgo room, 2015, is a major site-specific installation by leading Chinese artist, activist and public intellectual Ai Weiwei.

24 May 2019 – 13 October 2019 | NGV International | Admission fees apply 17 December 2018: In a dual presentation of Chinese art and culture past and present, the…

Continuing the National Gallery of Victoria’s engagement with contemporary art and design from China, SO – IL: Viewing China presents a large group of porcelain items from the NGV Collection…

In a dual presentation of Chinese art and culture past and present, the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria presents China’s ancient terracotta warriors alongside an…

In a dual presentation of Chinese art and culture past and present, the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria presents China’s ancient terracotta warriors alongside a…

This exhibition of 130 important pieces of Japanese Imari porcelain at the NGV has been enabled by a generous donation from Mrs Pauline Gandel, an enthusiastic benefactor of the NGV…