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

NGV International | 5 June – 4 October 2020 | Admission fees apply  The Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria will unveil Pierre Bonnard, an exclusive…

In 1901 Augustus John accepted a teaching post at an art school affiliated with Liverpool’s University College, and he and his wife Ida relocated to Merseyside, Englan

The 1920s and 1930s saw Augustus John triumph as a portraitist.

In 1889 the NGV’s Trustees asked the Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Loch, during a visit he was making to England, to enquire whether Queen Victoria would sit for a…

Augustus John. War, Peace Conference & other Portraits, Alpine Club, London, 1920, no. 27; from where purchased, on the advice of Frank Rinder, for the Felton Bequest, 1920.

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | 13 September 2019 – 2 February 2020 | Admission fees apply Civilization: The Way We Live Now is an international photography exhibition of…

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | 27 September 2019 – 15 March 2020 | Free Entry Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou is the first major museum retrospective of Australian…

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.