Melbourne-based label MaterialByProduct was founded by RMIT graduates Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald.

The Department of International Painting and Sculpture in collaboration with the Departments of Photography and Prints and Drawings have recently opened a dynamic new installation of Surrealist Art on Level…

On 26 February 1968 Robert Klippel’s largest Australian exhibition to date opened at Bonython Gallery Sydney in Paddingto

In August 2009 the NGV launched a new supporters group for the Prints and Drawings collection and, to mark the occasion, two longstanding patrons, Eric Harding and Athol Hawke, donated…

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;…

It could be heavy work, carrying around all the canvases needed to capture the varied effects of rapidly changing light and atmosphere. Monet overcame this predicament in various ways

These charming early eighteenth-century wine-glass coolers represent some of the most significant examples of Continental porcelain to enter the NGV decorative arts collection in recent years.

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…

When Margaret Winter-Irving married Bruce Mead in Melbourne on 24 June 1925, she wore a gold and ivory gown of metallic brocade styled in the latest flapper look of the…

As we celebrate the opening of Australian Impressionists in France, Phoebe Briggs, Head of Music at Victorian Opera, provides a new perspective on Impressionism

At the turn of the twentieth century, many progressive artists and designers in Europe experienced a growing imperative to create a new visual language which broke away from the styles…

There is music to be revealed in every object, image or place. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, quoted in Untitled (Series #3), Rice University Gallery, Houston TX, 2001

I have personally always found the greatest charm in the long, sweeping curve from the ribcage past the waist and down to the hips.

On Level 2 at NGV International, four pairs of boots by the Parisian shoemaker Jean-Louis François Pinet are on display alongside paintings, prints, drawings and photography from the mid-nineteenth century…

The daring, deconstructed aesthetic of Japanese label Comme des Garçons is incomparable, but current day fashion is again drawing on elements of this 1996 ensemble in a tendency towards longer…