Melbourne-born Ashley Gilbertson has crafted a career from his human, empathetic approach to photojournalism, most recently channelled through his images of New York City in 2020, when the metropolis was…

Held annually, and now in its twenty-eighth year, Top Arts celebrates the artistic dynamism and achievements of young Victorian artists.

The origins of Kai-awase Kai-awase (貝合わせ), the game of ‘matching shells’, is included among a number of aristocratic pastimes belonging to the category monoawase (物合わせ), a ‘competitive comparison among things’…

The universality of Goya’s art lies in his pursuit of truth, making his observations of society and human nature as relevant today as they were in his own tim

The historical portrayal of women in art often prioritised the artist’s role, usually a male, rather than the female subject’s lived experiences and accomplishme

Dutch writer and curator Charles Dumas introduces us to a skilled young artist from a family of painters, who struggled to assert her identity in the male-dominated world of eighteenth-century…

Dr Maria Quirk investigates the events and people behind one of the biggest global activist movements, through a range of works in the NGV Collection connected to women’s suffrage, the…

A frame maker’s label provides important historical information about the frame as an object, and also enhances our understanding of the relationship between a frame and the artwork withi

Framers in Focus: A series of essays on 19th century Melbourne frame makers, produced by the NGV Centre for Frame Research. Richard Foster Norton, also known as R.

People have been talking about the relationship between art and change for a long time.

Collaboration, friendship, inspiration, loss, love and connection. These themes filter through many artworks in the NGV Collection.

150 year, Rorschach, 2019, is a seven-panel panoramic landscape painting by leading Australian artist Ben Quilty and generously gifted through the Felton Bequest.

Learn more about Top Arts 2021 from the curators as they explore the key exhibition themes.

This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne When I suddenly see myself in the depths of the mirror, I take fright.

When this lovely example of Regency fashion entered the collection in 2018, the NGV Textiles Conservation team went scrambling for their history books and Jane Austen novels.