An effect is only momentary: so an impressionist tries to find his place.

Reading The Face magazine in early 1984 I was overwhelmed by a double-page spread entitled The New Glitterati featuring Leigh Bowery photographed in his ‘Paki from outer space’ look

Malerie Marder is a Los Angeles-based photographer.

   For photography there are new secrets to conquer, new difficulties to overcome, new Madonnas to invent, new ideals to imagin

The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a Madonna in prayer of exceptional beauty and quality by the seventeenth-century painter Giovanni Battista Salvi, ‘Il Sassoferrato̵

The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a magnificent conversation piece of The Pybus family, c.1769, by the British artist Nathaniel Dance (1735–181

During the first three centuries of the Christian era, funerary artisans in the Roman province of Egypt produced a unique genre of mummy covering which reflected the multicultural society that existed there…

William Nicholson was always torn between the need to paint society portraits to maintain his family and his love for humbler still lifes and landscape painting.

Alfred Felton has long been recognised as the benefactor who transformed the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

One must buy for the future, even against public opinion, although it is satisfying when you do buy a picture that’s popular … It’s important to get really top class thing

In 1954 the National Gallery of Victoria purchased a major painting by the French artist Bernard Buffet titled simply Owl, 1950 (fig. 1)

Art Bulletin of Victoria 41 is dedicated to Sonia Dean, who was the Editor of the Bulletin for twenty-seven consecutive years until her retirement from the Gallery in December 200

As an artist and photographer I look back fondly to when I was selected for Top Arts 2001.

The new public prominence of Aboriginal art remains the greatest single revolution in the past quarter-century in Australian art

Early in 1905 the National Gallery of Victoria’s director, Bernard Hall, charged with making the first purchases for Melbourne under the terms of the newly granted Felton Bequest, travelled to England and…