Pierre Soulages is internationally famous as the most important living French painter of the postwar École de Paris. And yet, Soulages emphatically rejects this associati

In 1976 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired from the dealer David Carritt in London a portrait of a young man, a work identified as a self-portrait of the young…

Reading The Face magazine in early 1984 I was overwhelmed by a double-page spread entitled The New Glitterati featuring Leigh Bowery photographed in his ‘Paki from outer space’ look

In August 1968 when the National Gallery of Victoria in St Kilda Road was opened, reviews were mixed

During the second half of the nineteenth century the British ceramics factory Minton enlisted the talents of many gifted designers and artisans to produce works in a range of ceramic bodies of…

Malerie Marder is a Los Angeles-based photographer.

The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a Madonna in prayer of exceptional beauty and quality by the seventeenth-century painter Giovanni Battista Salvi, ‘Il Sassoferrato̵

Like a sacred mantra the words ‘haute couture’ command a hushed silence of awe or generate a cynical sneer of irrelevance

Alfred Felton has long been recognised as the benefactor who transformed the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

One must buy for the future, even against public opinion, although it is satisfying when you do buy a picture that’s popular … It’s important to get really top class thing

At the age of seventy-five the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) defiantly referred to himself as ‘the old man mad about painting’ (gakyō-rōjin) as he railed against his mortality by declaring that…

In 1954 the National Gallery of Victoria purchased a major painting by the French artist Bernard Buffet titled simply Owl, 1950 (fig. 1)

Early in 1905 the National Gallery of Victoria’s director, Bernard Hall, charged with making the first purchases for Melbourne under the terms of the newly granted Felton Bequest, travelled to England and…

In the first half of the 1960s, the Argentine–Italian artist Lucio Fontana created Spatial concept (fi

 Dress 1997, is part a group of eleven works designed by Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto that have been recently donated to the National Gallery of Victoria by Takamasa Takahashi…