The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | 27 September 2019 – 29 March 2020| Free Entry Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic is the first major survey exhibition of celebrated Australian photographer…

In 2019 a selection of twenty-seven of David Hockney’s iPhone and iPad drawings, created over the period 2009–12, were generously gifted by the artist to the Gall

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic is the first major survey exhibition of photographer Petrina Hicks.

One of the last narrative compositions that Frank Holl ever exhibited publicly, Home again!, 1881, struck English audiences as an unusually cheerful work when the painting was shown at London’s Royal Academy in 1881. Writing for the Athenaeum, one critic at the time remarked upon the manner in which ‘Always lugubrious, this artist has here indulged in what is, for him, unprecedented action, energy and movement among the figures, and a good, bright, out-of-door effect of daylig

The ancient historian Livy told of the legend of a vast chasm opening in the Roman Forum that threatened to destroy the city. The Gods decreed that the fissure would not be repaired until the city sacrificed its greatest treasure. The courageous soldier Marcus Curtius declared that this treasure was in fact the valour of the Roman people. He then mounted his horse and rode headlong into the chasm, which then closed over forever. Livy’s epic tale spoke of stoicism in the face of doom, and lauded an individual’s ultimate sacrifice for the greater g

Top Arts celebrates exceptional art from Victoria’s young and emerging artists who have completed their studies of Art or Studio Arts as part of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)…

Fashion photography forms the most varied section of the Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection.

In 1938 Nora Heysen became the first woman to win the Archibald Portrait Prize and in 1943 was appointed the first Australian female war artist.

NGV International | 5 April 2019 – 4 August 2019 | Admission fees apply Known as the man who made sculpture move, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was one of the most…

‘Ha Ha World’ is a limited edition handmade artist book by Regan Tamanui, featuring 12 stencil portraits and 12 screen printed images, each of mathematical data reflecting a portrait of…

Photographer Kate Disher-Quill, artist Fayen d’Evie, and Luke King will will read and perform excerpts from new projects that challenge art publishing to become more ambitious and innovative in perceptual…

5 – 13 January 2018 | NGV International and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | FREE Inspired by the NGV’s summer program, including Escher X nendo | Between Two…

When, in 2004, the National Gallery of Victoria purchased a mid nineteenth-century Australian family portrait taken by the South Australian photographer William Millington Nixon, the sitters’ names were unknow

This edition of Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria presents seven papers originally delivered at the international conference ‘Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700–1914’…

In mid May 1938 the then director of the National Gallery of Victoria, J. S. MacDonald, wrote disparagingly of the striking 1909 portrait Rt. Hon.