The origins of Kai-awase Kai-awase (貝合わせ), the game of ‘matching shells’, is included among a number of aristocratic pastimes belonging to the category monoawase (物合わせ), a ‘competitive comparison among things’…

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WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is the first exhibition to comprehensively bring together the rich portrait holdings of both the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the National Portrait Gallery,…

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A painting’s frame is often an artwork itself. Lillie Williamson, born in Melbourne, was a celebrated frame-maker working in the early twentieth centur

The universality of Goya’s art lies in his pursuit of truth, making his observations of society and human nature as relevant today as they were in his own tim

The historical portrayal of women in art often prioritised the artist’s role, usually a male, rather than the female subject’s lived experiences and accomplishme

Dutch writer and curator Charles Dumas introduces us to a skilled young artist from a family of painters, who struggled to assert her identity in the male-dominated world of eighteenth-century…

Dr Maria Quirk investigates the events and people behind one of the biggest global activist movements, through a range of works in the NGV Collection connected to women’s suffrage, the…

Under the instruction of his first teacher José Luzán, Goya learnt the principles of drawing by making copies of print

A frame maker’s label provides important historical information about the frame as an object, and also enhances our understanding of the relationship between a frame and the artwork withi

Framers in Focus: A series of essays on 19th century Melbourne frame makers, produced by the NGV Centre for Frame Research. Richard Foster Norton, also known as R.

Throughout her career Maree Clarke has developed a deep and contemplative, multidisciplinary practice that continually reclaims and celebrates Aboriginal customary ritual, language and art.

Discover the thriving creative community of the Victorian Artists Society, where the Australian Impressionist painters including Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton formally gathered during the late 1800s.

People have been talking about the relationship between art and change for a long time.