Projecting the splendour of the empire, and the resolve of its subjects, the bust of William Birdwood keeps a stiff upper lip in the National Portrait Gallery.
The exhibition Australians in Hollywood celebrated the achievements of Australians in the highly competitive American film industry.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.
Joanna Gilmour profiles the life and times of the shutter sisters May and Mina Moore.
Most well-regarded pictures of chickens show them dead. A reliable way to tell if a chicken in a painting is dead is to check if it’s hanging upside down, because unlike, say, cockatoos, chickens don’t practise inversion for enjoyment in life.
It’s a matter beyond dispute that in the entire history of Australian art, it’s Noel McKenna who’s painted the liveliest rendition of the head of a Chihuahua.
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
Dr Sarah Engledow explores the portraits of writers held in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
