This edition of the Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria includes essays addressing a variety of works from the NGV Collection assembled around the theme of magic.
This edition of the Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria includes essays addressing a variety of works from the NGV Collection assembled around the theme of magic.
To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…
At the Sotheby’s sale of the Pringsheim collection held in London on 7 and 8 June 1939, the Felton Bequest acquired for the National Gallery of Victoria, on the advice…
‘Australians will stand beside the mother country to help and defend her to the last man and the last shillin
In his 1956 autobiography, Christian Dior reflected on ‘the miracle of fashion’, commenting that ‘in the world today haute couture is one of the last repositories of the marvellous and…
Florence Ada Fuller is an artist scarcely recognised today.
NGV International | 5 June – 4 October 2020 | Admission fees apply The Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria will unveil Pierre Bonnard, an exclusive…
The German artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt is internationally renowned for his visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving-image artworks.
In the fifteenth century, on the Venetian island of Murano, a revolution in the manufacture of European glass was unfolding.
One of Britain’s most influential living artists, Julian Opie, talks about drawing the world and shares some surprising sources of artistic inspiration including ancient Egypt and his daughter’s wooden t
This essay was commissioned for and originally published in the Nov/Dec 2018 issue of NGV Magazine.
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…
NGV International | 9 November 2018 – 17 February 2019 | FREE ENTRY From a shoal of virtual carp swimming in the NGV’s waterwall to a towering metropolis in Federation…
The NGV presents the work of Julian Opie, one of Britain’s most influential living artist
The Bush administration has made much of the presumptive novelty of the ‘war on terror’, but the selection of Guantánamo as a prison camp, the designation of its inmates as…