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An Orthodox Master and an Individualist: Wang Yuanqi and Daoji
Wang Yuanqi (1642–1715) and Daoji or Shitao (1642–1707) were born in the same year but led very different li
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Brook Andrew: Ethical portraits and ghost-scapes
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
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MaterialByProduct’s Outfit comprising couture excesses
Melbourne-based label MaterialByProduct was founded by RMIT graduates Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald.
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 6
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…
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 56
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.
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A Powerful Appearance of Life: Cornelis de Vos’s Mother and child
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.
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 69
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
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In the Void: Robert Klippel’s Models of Unreason
On 26 February 1968 Robert Klippel’s largest Australian exhibition to date opened at Bonython Gallery Sydney in Paddingto
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Moschino’s Survival jacket and trousers
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
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Index 1945–2010
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;…
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The Trinitarias carpet: early masterpiece or modern reproduction?
The Trinitarias carpet (fig.
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At the edge of empires: a Biedermeier portrait from Trieste by Jožef Tominc
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…
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When the wattles bloom again: The Barak Project
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…
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Dior and Yamamoto: The New Look
I have personally always found the greatest charm in the long, sweeping curve from the ribcage past the waist and down to the hips.
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The fashion detective: Looking for clues
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!…