In 1959 Melbourne architectural firm Grounds, Romberg and Boyd was awarded the contract to design the new National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) building.

This exhibition of 130 important pieces of Japanese Imari porcelain at the NGV has been enabled by a generous donation from Mrs Pauline Gandel, an enthusiastic benefactor of the NGV…

The turn of the twentieth century was a crucial time for women artists in Australia.

Ken Unsworth: Truly, Madly has been developed in close association with artist Ken Unsworth and is the first major exhibition of his work to be held in Melbourne

In this third and final chapter on Salvador Dalí, his life and the painting Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946, NGV Senior Fundraising Officer, Caroline Buckley, explores Dalí’s influence and…

The National Gallery of Victoria has an opportunity to become the first public collection in Melbourne to acquire a painting by Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, and is launching a campaign…

Through the generous auspices of the Felton Bequest, the National Gallery of Victoria has acquired its first example of Dutch seventeenth-century furniture.

In late 2015 the National Gallery of Victoria made a transformative acquisition with the support of Mrs Krystyna Campbell-Pretty in memory of her late husband.

One work of Stanfield alone presents us with as much concentrated knowledge of sea and sky, as diluted, would have lasted any one of the old masters in his life.

Introduction In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria made a significant addition to its growing and increasingly important collection of Surreal objects with the acquisition of Óscar Domínguez’s La couturière…

Donald Laycock has lived a life as an Australian abstract painter. He is duly recognised as a major ‘art historical’ figure in twentieth-century Australian modern

Dress and ornament in the Melbourne profile portrait   ‘Le nostre done cornute, cum tanti balci … tanti rechami’ (‘Our horn-wearing ladies, with their many balzi … many embroideries’) Ludovico…

In May 1926 French Vogue published a photograph by Man Ray accompanied by the elegant description ‘Mother of Pearl Face and Ebony Mask

Pierre Jean François TURPIN French 1775–1840 Oxyanthus early 19th century watercolour, pencil, pen and ink Presented through the NGV Foundation by Margaret Stones, Governor, 2004    

A group of people stand in an empty gallery. The house lights are on and the walls are bare. There is no art on display.