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Australian idyll: domesticating the Victorian landscape
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.
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Charles Blackman’s Feet beneath the table
Charles Blackman is renowned for his images that explore the duality of life: innocence and experience, fantasy and fact, dreams and nightmares, beauty and savagery
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David McDiarmid: When This You See Remember Me
I never saw art as being a safe thing. I know that exists but that’s not something that involves me.
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Phantasy and Myth, Parmigianino’s Huntsman drawing
In his 1953 publication on the drawings of Parmigianino (Girolamo Maria Francesco Mazzola) (1503–1540), A.
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Patricia Piccinini’s Desert rider, mountain
All babies are beautiful – even truck babie
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Lee Bul’s Untitled
Lee Bul lives and works in Seoul. She was born in 1964 in Yongwol, South Korea, and studied at Hong-Ik University, Seoul.
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Tully Moore & Tony Garifalakis
TG: Your work in Melbourne Now utilises an array of visual fragments in its compositional structure, what are the sources of these elements and is it important to you that…
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Ash Keating & Steaphan Paton
AK: In Melbourne Now, one half of your artwork, Cloaked Combat, hangs directly next to my video West Park Proposition, and it strikes me as a wonderful and unexpected connection and…
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NGV announces The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
“ I am honoured and flattered that my exhibition will travel to Australia and I am thrilled to be returning to a country that I have visited only once, many…
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A Knight in Shining Armour, a Virgin – Uccello’s Melbourne Saint George and the dragon and Oxford Annunciation
Paintings by famous early Renaissance artists are rare in Australian collections, so the realisation that the Saint George and the dragon, c.1430 (fig.
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A Life Revealed: Emil Todt, a German sculptor in nineteenth-century Melbourne
Emil Todt, the German sculptor whose plaster figure group The gold diggers (fig.
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An Orthodox Master and an Individualist: Wang Yuanqi and Daoji
Wang Yuanqi (1642–1715) and Daoji or Shitao (1642–1707) were born in the same year but led very different li
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Paris Bordone’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt
A sixteenth-century religious landscape depicting the Rest on the Flight into Egypt is the first work by Venetian painter Paris Bordone to enter an Australian public art collection.
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Carlo Bugatti’s Throne chair
Carlo Bugatti’s extraordinary furniture designs stand alone in the history of decorative arts. Indeed, the name for his Milanese furniture business testifies to the fantastic nature of his work: C…
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Raising the Flag of Modernism: Ben Nicholson’s 1938
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently added to its collection a painting that encapsulates one of the most complex, dynamic and contested moments in the history of modern British…