Prior to the broader introduction of synthetic colour pigments in the late nineteenth century, artists were not able to readily source the range and vibrancy of pigments and paints they…

Now in its fifth year, the NGV x MECCA partnership supports women in the arts and enables new acquisitions by emerging Australian female artists to enter the NGV Collection.

‘O Auntie, I must tell you What Precious said today: I heard her tell the children While at their merry play She would not mind if Jesus Would send her…

For as long as humans have been engaging in cultural and symbolic practice, the making and wearing of jewellery and body adornments have been central to the expression of identity,…

Women in Britain had long used visual and material culture to make statements about social injustice.1 Deborah Cherry, Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain, 1850–1900, Routledge, London, 2000…

It is an enchanting scene.

Japan in 1920s and 1930s was a time when traditional art and aesthetics merged with European life and culture.

Throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, Japan’s arts, crafts and design have been heralded for their high level of technical skill, sophisticated use of materials and simple design aestheti

Widely known as Arita ware in Japan, after the place of its original production and Imari ware in Europe, after the town from where they were exported, Japanese porcelain represents…

In his 1954 autobiography Leda and the Goose, Tristram Hillier was to recall how in 1931, during a hiking trip with friends across the Pyrenees, he had his ‘first glimpse of Spain which seemed to me like a return to China … No grass, no trees, but only rock and tawny earth that stretched away to the shimmering horizon like a lion’s pelt ’. He especially loved the translucent light found in the country’s south, which he felt was invested with ‘a dramatic quality, both noble and cruel’. His Spanish landscapes, like Andalusian farm, 1949, are charged with electric energy and poised in breathless and eer

Letgo room, 2015, is a major site-specific installation by leading Chinese artist, activist and public intellectual Ai Weiwei.

This exhibition of 130 important pieces of Japanese Imari porcelain at the NGV has been enabled by a generous donation from Mrs Pauline Gandel, an enthusiastic benefactor of the NGV…

Buddhism is the oldest of all the major religions practised around the world in the twenty-first century.

Since Antiquity, chairs have been utilised across diverse cultures and universally understood as a ubiquitous part of human culture.

The Language of Ornament explores the history of ornament in the Western design tradition.