Witty knits In 1981 Prince Charles married Lady Di. Among the official wedding gifts sent to the then-happy couple was a pair of Jenny Kee koala and kangaroo hand-knitted jumpers….

Called In the woods it was painted by the little known Australian artist Iso (Isobel) Rae in 1892 in France.

In recent years the Joe White Bequest has enabled the acquisition of significant early works on paper for the collection.

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, an architect, designer and theorist, was one of the most significant figures in nineteenth-century British design.

The recent donation of Arthur Loureiro’s Portrait of Marie Therese Smith, 1888–89, makes an important addition to the NGV’s holdings of this significant late-nineteenth-century artist�

Rick Owens’s Outfit, 2011, featured in the designer’s spring–summer menswear colle

Introduction Within the genre of South Indian art, sets of paintings on paper depicting a range of subjects including deities, tribes and castes, occupations, regional costumes, festivals and temple sites…

It was no coincidence that in 1861 the National Gallery of Victoria was officially opened by the governor, Sir Henry Barkly, on Queen Victoria’s birthday, 24 Ma

Adolf Loos (1870–1933) was one of those rare artists whose ability in his creative fields of architecture, and furniture and interior design was matched by his facility with the pe

Adolf Loos (1870–1933) was one of those rare artists whose ability in his creative fields of architecture, and furniture and interior design was matched by his facility with the pe

Introduction The subject of this essay is one of the most important travelling exhibitions ever to arrive in Australia, Two Decades of American Painting (henceforth, Two Decades), a large exhibition…

Napoleon’s wife to be, Marie-Josèphe-Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie, was one of a small elite of remarkably gifted, charming and alluring young women around whom Parisian Society gathered at…

Did you know that it was a French Zoologist, Étienne Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire, at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, who recognised that the platypus belonged to the rarest of…

While searching through the NGV’s collection of Australian cartes-de-visite recently we came across this imag

While searching through the NGV’s collection of Australian cartes-de-visite recently we came across this imag