In 2015 Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena was appointed director of the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture, the global exhibition and think tank that draws architects to Venice in flocks.

Madarrpa artist Nonggirrnga Marawili is the daughter of the great pre-contact warrior and accomplished artist Mundukul, who did not live long enough to witness an era when Yolngu women were…

First published in 2016 by The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia www.ngv.vic.gov.

Donald Laycock has lived a life as an Australian abstract painter. He is duly recognised as a major ‘art historical’ figure in twentieth-century Australian modern

Borrowing its title from a 1990 album by the Australian band Died Pretty, Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s explores a decade in contemporary art and culture.

Buddhism is the oldest of all the major religions practised around the world in the twenty-first century.

Birmuyingathi Maali Netta Loogatha Kaiadilt born 1942 Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Gabori Kaiadilt born c.

In 1981 the National Gallery of Victoria staged Aboriginal Australia, a major exhibition of 328 works that did not include a single exhibit by a named woman artist.

We interviewed Jen Cloher who will be headlining NGV Friday Nights at NGV International on 5 Aug 2016.

We interview John Busby & John Willsteed from Halfway, who will be headlining NGV Friday Nights at NGV International on 29 July 2016

Express Yourself: Romance Was Born for Kids was an immersive and interactive exhibition presented at NGV International, from 17 October 2014 through to 12 April 2015

First published in 2015 by The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia www.ngv.vic.gov.

The National Gallery of Victoria recently acquired three powerful and disarming photographs from the series Blood Generation, 2009–11, by Bougainville-born artist Taloi Havini and Australian photographer Stuart Mi

In 2004 the National Gallery of Victoria was gifted an early seventeenth-century English painted cabinet (fig. 1).

The sea is our pathway to each other and to everyone else, the sea is our endless saga, the sea is our most powerful metaphor, the ocean is in us.