The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, stand today as a monument to ‘Marvellous Melbour

Until recently, the question of the aesthetic principle has figured rarely in discussions of Aboriginal art

Fiona Hall was born in Sydney in 1953 and studied at the National Art School between 1972 and 1975

A large proportion of the riches of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria have been acquired from major private collections of works on paper, through the Felton…

Two Chinese figures at the National Gallery of VictoriaIt was not until the present century that Buddhist sculpture, in common with most other forms of Chinese art, was recognised by…

The artist should preach the beautiful in our commonplace and everyday existence.

In January 1999 the Gallery acquired a very important drawing, of large scale, by Wurundjeri artist William Barak, who from 1860 onward lived at the Aboriginal reserve known as Coranderrk,…

Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula (fig. 1) came into national focus in 1997 when his Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa, 1972, created a record for the sale at auction of a work by an Aboriginal arti

The National Gallery of Victoria has just acquired two extremely important sketchbooks by the great nineteenth-century Kwat Kwat artist Tommy McRae, c.1836–190

In August 1968 when the National Gallery of Victoria in St Kilda Road was opened, reviews were mixed

The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a major installation work, Leeawuleena, 2001, by Palawa artist Julie Gough

Shields bearing a large wooden face or mask at their centre were erected in the prow of large war canoes used in inter-village tribal wars along the Middle and Upper reaches…

Upright slit-drums standing in groups out in the open are unique to Central Vanuatu and occupy a focal position in the social life of the societies in which they are found…

Zen, usually translated as ‘meditation’, is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese character chan, which had in turn entered the Chinese vocabulary as an abbreviated form of the Indian Sanskrit word dhyan

Like a sacred mantra the words ‘haute couture’ command a hushed silence of awe or generate a cynical sneer of irrelevance