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.

Melbourne-based label MaterialByProduct was founded by RMIT graduates Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald.

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…

Exquisitely decorated porcelain plates surrounded by cutlery and highlighted with sparkling glassware – a well-laid dining table can be a work of ar

The unconventional and playfully irreverent designs of Jean Paul Gaultier will be celebrated in the first international exhibition dedicated to this groundbreaking French couturier.

The National Gallery of Victoria will be the only Australian venue for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, which will feature more than 140 superbly crafted garments in addition to photographs, sketches, stage costumes, excerpts from runway shows, film, television, concerts and dance performances.

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

In August 2009 the NGV launched a new supporters group for the Prints and Drawings collection and, to mark the occasion, two longstanding patrons, Eric Harding and Athol Hawke, donated…

Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…

It could be heavy work, carrying around all the canvases needed to capture the varied effects of rapidly changing light and atmosphere. Monet overcame this predicament in various ways

These charming early eighteenth-century wine-glass coolers represent some of the most significant examples of Continental porcelain to enter the NGV decorative arts collection in recent years.

The Biedermeier style, which arose in central and northern Europe (Austro-Hungary, Germany and Denmark) between the close of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the pan-European revolutions of 1848, has…

When Margaret Winter-Irving married Bruce Mead in Melbourne on 24 June 1925, she wore a gold and ivory gown of metallic brocade styled in the latest flapper look of the…

Opening 10 August, Visual Music: Masters of Light and Colour is a captivating new contemporary exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria that explores the work of eight senior Indigenous…

As we celebrate the opening of Australian Impressionists in France, Phoebe Briggs, Head of Music at Victorian Opera, provides a new perspective on Impressionism

At the turn of the twentieth century, many progressive artists and designers in Europe experienced a growing imperative to create a new visual language which broke away from the styles…