Wang Yuanqi (1642–1715) and Daoji or Shitao (1642–1707) were born in the same year but led very different li
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
Melbourne-based label MaterialByProduct was founded by RMIT graduates Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald.
On Top of the World: Flags for Melbourne is a public art project presenting artists’ flags designed for 16 flagpoles across the City of Melbourne, and concurrently displayed in the…
Hotham Street Ladies (HSL) are a group of five women whose work is rooted in their experiences of sharing a run-down but much-loved house in Hotham Street, Collingwood.
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a fine portrait of a Mother and child (fig. 1) by the early seventeenth-century Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos.
The NGV Women’s Association is proud to present Melbourne in a Moment, a half-day seminar featuring six of the artists included in Melbourne No
On 26 February 1968 Robert Klippel’s largest Australian exhibition to date opened at Bonython Gallery Sydney in Paddingto
Survival jacket and trousers is an attention-seeking exercise in self-parody and so qualifies as an exemplar of Franco Moschino’s ironic and comic styl
Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…
The Trinitarias carpet (fig.
The Biedermeier style, which arose in central and northern Europe (Austro-Hungary, Germany and Denmark) between the close of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the pan-European revolutions of 1848, has…
The Felton Commissions (The Barak Project) was conceived as part of an ambitious three-tiered program that celebrates the National Gallery of Victoria’s 150th anniversary through a specific focus on the…
I have personally always found the greatest charm in the long, sweeping curve from the ribcage past the waist and down to the hips.
The vintage fashion lover will quickly hone her detective skills on the clues that garments reveal: style, fabrics, detailing, sizing and the most important determinant of value – the labels!…