Folding screens are called byobu in Japanese, meaning protection against (byo) the wind (bu).

This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 48 encompasses essays discussing works from a variety of areas of the NGV’s collection: Sophie Matthiesson’s discussion on a recently acquired painting…

In Melbourne Now we are featuring a recent body of photographic collages by local artist Christopher Day, from his Permanent Deferral series of 2013.

With over seventy thousand artworks in the NGV Collection, spanning from antiquity right through to contemporary art, we are fortunate to be the cultural custodians of some of the most…

This October, the National Gallery of Victoria will showcase the glamour and modernity of the Art Deco period through the work of fashion’s most influential photographer, Edward Steichen, and stunning…

When Isabella d’Este – marchesa of Mantua and one of the greatest collectors of her day – died in 1539, her belongings were divided among her heirs according to contemporary…

The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a fine portrait of a Mother and child (fig. 1) by the early seventeenth-century Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos.

The multidisciplinary artist Andrew Hazewinkel will be exhibiting a new installation of works in Melbourne Now.

Then very Love knelt down beside the maid and on her breast a hand unfelt he laid, And drew the gown from off her little feet, and set his fair…

The NGV Women’s Association is proud to present Melbourne in a Moment, a half-day seminar featuring six of the artists included in Melbourne No

Wired for Melbourne Sound opens 28 September, an exhibition that will see NGV Studio transformed into a recording space where a new EP will be recorded by a ‘super group’…

Thomas Struth is one of a number of photographers who belong to the so-called Düsseldorf School

For Monet, painting water was a grand obsession and he was quick to have a boat built and equipped with a semi-enclosed cabin that he could use as a studio…

As a teenager, at school in the port city of Le Havre, Monet preferred to draw caricatures of his classmates and teachers rather than pay attention in class.

Laith McGregor grew up in Queensland and moved to Melbourne in 2002.