Agnieszka Pilat’s Heterobota, 2023, tests our threshold for machines to exist outside of servitude and develop their own creative pursuit
The attribution of Old Master paintings is fluid at times, as ongoing research brings to light new information. The National Gallery of Victoria’s enigmatic Profile portrait of a lady, c….
When recommending the purchase of this sombre yet arresting painting by the celebrated Venetian artist Titian (born Tiziano Vecellio), Frank Rinder, the London-based adviser to the Felton Bequest, wrote in…
Nestled within the permanent collection of French Impressionist paintings at NGV International, for the first time, the work of Japanese artists of the nineteenth century take centre stage to contextualise…
PROJECT Referencing Western sculptural traditions, Thomas J Price’s works play with methods of presentation, material and scale, to highlight the inadequate and prejudiced representations of Black people today and throughout…
PROJECT Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have collaborated since the mid 1990s, working across sculpture, installation and performance.
James Tissot’s enigmatic and visually lavish An interesting story, c. 1872, has been entertaining and delighting NGV patrons since it was acquired in 1938 with funds from the Felton Bequest…
Introduction The NGV holds 140 Rembrandt prints, a growing collection of the artist’s intaglio works first purchased in 1891 with a new acquisition as recent as 202
In 1999, J. G. P. Delaney’s biography of Glyn Philpot used the ‘H’ word for the first time in writings on this prominent British portraitist, and religious and genre painter
A powerful and imposing bronze by French artist Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), who is widely regarded as the founder of modern sculpture, has been generously gifted to the NGV Collection by…
14 October 2022: A blood donation campaign driven by the power of emotional response has been announced as the winner of NGV’s Rigg Design Prize 202
April 2022: In 2022, the NGV’s world-leading collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and design moves to the ground floor of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, establishing…
Australian-born Ron Mueck has been creating hyper-realistic, figurative sculptures since his debut as an artist in 1997.
The Victorian Government and National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) are grateful for the extraordinary generosity of Lindsay Fox AC and Paula Fox AO, who today pledged $100 million towards NGV…
“Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with it, it is the mother of the arts and the origin of their wonders.
“Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with it, it is the mother of the arts and the origin of their wonders.