From the mythical winged horse Pegasus to Phar Lap’s victorious Melbourne Cup, three thousand years of the horse in art will be displayed in the NGV Collection exhibition The Horse,…
Cobalt blue pigment and indigo blue dye are two of the most distinctive and influential colourants employed by artists worldwide.
The Horse is a playful and enlightening exhibition celebrating the role this majestic animal has played in the development of human civilisation throughout the millennia.
The sewing needle holds an intrinsically important place in history.
To celebrate the final weekend of A Golden Age of China: Qianlong Emperor, 1736 – 1795, renowned chef Victor Liong from Melbourne’s Lee Ho Fook restaurant will present a Chinese…
Introduction In 1989 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired two nineteenth-century Tibetan scroll paintings (thangkas) depicting Tibetan Buddhist lamas: Yuntonpa with Begtse Chen (fig.
Zhu Qizhan was born in Taichang, Jiangsu province, China, in the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911), and was a professor, dean of the Western Fine Art School of Shanghai Academy of…
This coverlet demonstrates the cross-cultural sources embroiders drew upon in their designs.
Embroidery patterns in the seventeenth and eighteenth century were influenced by Asian textiles, porcelain and lacquerware imported into England from India, China and Japan.
Kim Hoa Tram was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1959 to a family originally from Fujian province in China. He migrated to Australia in 1984.
Throughout the nineteenth century the Minton ceramic manufactory in Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford-shire, England, was at the forefront of taste and innovation.
A masquerade ball for robots will be part of an exhibition that brings together robotics, performance art, sound and video at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
The question of the extent to which porcelain figures were considered sculpture – that is, figural works bearing an independent meaning, viewed and engaged with as such, rather than objects which…
Although isolated examples of Chinese porcelain were known to have filtered through to Europe in the Middle Ages it was not until the establishment of the various East India Companies…
It would seem that no aspiring middle-class family of the Victorian era would have considered the furnishing of its drawing-room as complete until it could adorn a side table or pedestal with…