Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.

The Finding of Moses (fig. 1), currently attributed to Sebastiano Ricci, has been the source of much critical debate for the better part of fifty years.

The National Gallery of Victoria’s impressive collection of eighteenth-century paintings has recently received the bonus of two important attributions of works that had been sitting inconspicuously in the gallery’s holdings…

Ron Mueck’s Two women is an uncanny sculptural representation of two elderly female figure

The influential fashion columnist for the International Herald Tribune, Suzy Menkes, recently noted that major fashion houses have been switching their attention to feet and producing fantastical shoes.

The Department of International Painting and Sculpture in collaboration with the Departments of Photography and Prints and Drawings have recently opened a dynamic new installation of Surrealist Art on Level…

In an new series of blog posts, we are asking pairs of Melbourne Now artists to consider each others work. First up is Brendan Huntley and Jess Johnson.

Back in March, while interning here at the NGV,  I was sitting with some staff on the lawn in the NGV Garden at lunchtime

Sam Leach has been exhibiting his meticulously detailed oil paintings since 2003. He discusses his painting, Sebeok on safari (2013), which will be on display in Melbourne Now.

In Melbourne Now we are featuring a recent body of photographic collages by local artist Christopher Day, from his Permanent Deferral series of 2013.

Michelle Hamer is an architect turned textile artist whose work interrogates the vernacular of Melbourne’s civic landscap

Last week, over 100 keen educators from schools, universities and other settings gathered at the NGV to hear the very latest update on Melbourne Now.

When Isabella d’Este – marchesa of Mantua and one of the greatest collectors of her day – died in 1539, her belongings were divided among her heirs according to contemporary…

The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a fine portrait of a Mother and child (fig. 1) by the early seventeenth-century Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos.

On 26 February 1968 Robert Klippel’s largest Australian exhibition to date opened at Bonython Gallery Sydney in Paddingto