8 December 2023: A larger-than-life bronze of a young woman by British artist Thomas J Price and a mirror-polished statue of a young man by art duo Elmgreen & Dragset…
5 December 2023: London-based designer Bethan Laura Wood has unveiled Kaleidoscope-o-rama, 2023, the MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission, on display until 7 April 2024 at NGV International, Melbourne….
1 December 2023: Opening 3 December, NGV Triennial 2023 is a powerful and moving snapshot of the world today as captured through the work of over 120 artists, designers and…
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
The chief protagonists in the scene on the front of this pelike, or two-handled jar, are named by inscription as Telamon and Andromache, the Amazon queen.
A collaboration between Cini Boeri and Tomu Katayanagi for Italian manufacturer Fiam, the Ghost, armchair marked an important breakthrough in the manufacture of glass furniture and is an icon of…
Lella and Massimo Vignelli together had diverse and prolific careers as both designers and architects.
An icon of light, modern and informal seating, the Beanbag has arguably become one of the most recognisable expressions of Italian style and design.
Born in Barcelona in 1890, the Catalan artist Manuel Humbert was twenty-six when he posed for this arresting portrait, painted in Paris by the immensely gifted, but self-afflicted Amedeo Modigliani….
Elisabetta Sirani (1638–65) was born into an artistic family in Bologna and was taught to draw and paint by her father Giovanni Andrea Siran
Giovanni Franceso Romanelli was a major artist of the Italian Baroque period.
Giovanni Battista Salvi, called Sassoferrato after his town of birth in the Marches region of central Italy, was a Baroque master who specialised in pious devotional images of the Virgin…
During the eighteenth century, views of Venice by Canaletto (born Giovanni Antonio Canal) were disseminated widely in Europe, as both paintings and prints.
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Bernardo Bellotto painted this view of the west end of the Roman Forum in around 1743, when he was still in his early twenties.