When Andy Warhol moved to New York City in 1949, the city felt like the capital of the world.

Porcelain sculpture may be considered the quintessential eighteenth-century European art form.

We interviewed The Apartments, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 1 January 2016. Describe your sound in 5 words or less? 2am, stars. No moonlight.

From the late 1980s until the mid 2000s, celebrated French-American artist Louise Bourgeois produced numerous ‘cells’ – closed environments made from industrial materials into which she placed various found objects…

You don’t necessarily have to see the pieces … just as they are … but as what they could be, for their potential to become something

The educational and moral value of French theatre during the Enlightenment was hotly debated among philosophers and authors of the period.

Catherine the Great marked the history of her realm like few other rulers in history. She was small in physical stature but towering in her achievements and passions.

Catherine the Great’s intellectual pursuits extended far beyond her collection of ar

A public lecture to accompany the NGV’s current exhibition of paintings and objects from the vast collection of Catherine the Great in the Hermitage sounded daunting.

What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.

The term ‘surreal’ has become commonplace today, and somewhat watered-down, inferring a rather harmless visual oddity, dreamlike imagery or non-logical narrative struct

Simon Starling is renowned for his speculative, research-based practice and for complex acts of poetic and material transformation, and his work is marked by epic journeys and elaborate historical narratives….

Once celebrated, but since forgotten, a significant painting by Melbourne artist Constance Jenkins was recently displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria.

This research began with a button. This button, at the collar of the elegant gentleman’s silk Coat,

Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.