I felt honoured to be selected for the 2002 Top Arts exhibition. I exhibited a piece called ‘Sad Painting’ (mixed media on found board) and my sketchbooks were also displayed….
Nicholas Caire is considered today to be one of the pre-eminent Australian photographers of the nineteenth century, and Fairy scene at the Landslip, Black’s Spur, c
Nature had not only painted there in all her hues But there the sweetness of a thousand scents Was blended in one fragrance strange and new.
Nicolas Ghesquière was creative director of French fashion house Balenciaga from 1997 to 2012, where he frequently used elements drawn from active sportswear
Introduction Porcelain plates, silver cutlery, sparkling glassware – a well-laid dining table is a work of ar
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes (1866–1929) was an accomplished novelist who moved in literary and artistic circles in Pari
Eric Westbrook was born in London on 29 September in 1915.
Steiner eurhythmy and modernist visual arts The aesthetics of eurhythmy as they were first outlined by the modernist dramaturge and Christian mystic, Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), were cogently realised within Roger…
In 1923 Frank Rinder, the international Felton Adviser for the National Gallery of Victoria, discovered a painting titled The wave (La vague) at an exhibition in London (fig. 1).
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently added to its collection a painting that encapsulates one of the most complex, dynamic and contested moments in the history of modern British…
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
The Finding of Moses (fig. 1), currently attributed to Sebastiano Ricci, has been the source of much critical debate for the better part of fifty years.
The National Gallery of Victoria’s impressive collection of eighteenth-century paintings has recently received the bonus of two important attributions of works that had been sitting inconspicuously in the gallery’s holdings…
The recent loan of Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, on the occasion of the exhibition Degas: Master of French Art (12 December…
The influential fashion columnist for the International Herald Tribune, Suzy Menkes, recently noted that major fashion houses have been switching their attention to feet and producing fantastical shoes.