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

Continuing a recent series of major commissions by leading international artists for Federation Court at NGV International, Paola Pivi’s You started it … I finish it is an installation encompassing…

At the age of seventy-five the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) defiantly referred to himself as ‘the old man mad about painting’ (gakyō-rōjin) as he railed against his mortality by declaring that…

This edition of Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria traverses the centuries, from Carl Villis’s detailed study of the NGV’s fifteenth-century Virgin and Child panel, to Paola Di…

In 1957 a photo-essay by Jeff Carter in People magazine represented seasonal hop-picking in the Ovens Valley in north–eastern Victoria in pastoral terms (fig.

 In June 2004 the National Gallery of Victoria was given a superb contemporary La-sisi malagan canoe created in 1999 by the master carvers Edward Salle (born 1939) and his son Mathew…