Rick Owens’s Outfit, 2011, featured in the designer’s spring–summer menswear colle

Introduction Within the genre of South Indian art, sets of paintings on paper depicting a range of subjects including deities, tribes and castes, occupations, regional costumes, festivals and temple sites…

It was no coincidence that in 1861 the National Gallery of Victoria was officially opened by the governor, Sir Henry Barkly, on Queen Victoria’s birthday, 24 Ma

Adolf Loos (1870–1933) was one of those rare artists whose ability in his creative fields of architecture, and furniture and interior design was matched by his facility with the pe

Adolf Loos (1870–1933) was one of those rare artists whose ability in his creative fields of architecture, and furniture and interior design was matched by his facility with the pe

Introduction The subject of this essay is one of the most important travelling exhibitions ever to arrive in Australia, Two Decades of American Painting (henceforth, Two Decades), a large exhibition…

The National Gallery of Victoria today announced that the recipient of the 2012 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award is Marian Hosking.

This summer’s must-see exhibition Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists will open at the National Gallery of Victoria on 16 Novembe

The theme of ‘containment’ will be explored by fourteen Victorian artists for the 2012 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Aw

The National Gallery of Victoria has closed Napoleon: Revolution to Empire after a final weekend of celebrations which saw art-lovers queuing throughout the night to view over 300 spectacular works…

Celebrate the last weekend of Napoleon’s reign of Melbourne as the National Gallery of Victoria stays open all night on Saturday 6 Octobe

Napoleon’s wife to be, Marie-Josèphe-Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie, was one of a small elite of remarkably gifted, charming and alluring young women around whom Parisian Society gathered at…

Did you know that it was a French Zoologist, Étienne Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire, at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, who recognised that the platypus belonged to the rarest of…

While searching through the NGV’s collection of Australian cartes-de-visite recently we came across this imag

While searching through the NGV’s collection of Australian cartes-de-visite recently we came across this imag