A show of Australian Indigenous art should have inspired awe. It’s a mess.

The Stars We Do Not See” at the National Gallery of Art tells — and muddies — one of the most fascinating stories in 20th ...
Artnet

An Aboriginal Art Expert Picks the Best 8 Lots by Australian Indigenous Artists Hitting the Block This Week at Sotheby’s

First, Larry Gagosian filled his Madison Avenue premises with work by Australia’s Aboriginal desert painters. Then, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a new gallery dedicated to contemporary ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

'Everything an Aboriginal artist makes is political' | Art | santafenewmexican.com

Art by more than 30 Indigenous artists from six global regions is currently on view in Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, the first large-scale international exhibition of Indigenous ...
The Digital Universe

BYU’s Museum of Art welcomes Aboriginal Australian artists

Marlene Nampitjina speaks about her art with MOA visitors. Nampitjina shared stories about her family and their connections to her art. (Emmeline Blythe) BYU’s Museum of Art hosted an artist panel to ...
The New York Times

A Ravishing Show of Aboriginal Art, Some in the U.S. for the First Time

The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an exhibition at the Asia Society. By Arthur Lubow The Aboriginal art of northeast ...
Yahoo

Aboriginal Art Is Booming in Australia. Inside the Galleries and Museums Spotlighting First Nation Works.

When a flash flood sent a five-foot wave sweeping through the Mitchelton Gallery of Aboriginal Art last fall, curator Adam Knight helicoptered in to rescue what he could. The subterranean gallery—part ...
Los Angeles Times

Johnny W. Tjupurrula; Popularized Aboriginal Art

SYDNEY, Australia — Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, an influential artist whose work helped popularize aboriginal art and later sold for record prices at auction, has died. Tjupurrula died Feb. 12 in ...
Courthouse News Service

Kangaroo Painting Australia’s Oldest Aboriginal Rock Art

The maliwawa image collected from the aboriginal Namunidjbuk estate in the Wellington Range of Australia depicts a macropod. (Courtesy of Paul Taçon, Griffith University) The maliwawa image collected ...
Hyperallergic

Two Aboriginal Artists Pay Tribute to Their Homeland

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Bloomberg L.P.

My Night With Aboriginal Artists Leads to Chaos—and Creative Rebirth

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are warned that the following story may contain images and voices of deceased persons. “Tonight you dream,” said Peggy Patrick, stabbing her finger at me. The ...

APY Art Centre Collective sues The Australian's publisher for defamation seeking $4.4m payout

The truth behind claims of "white hands on black art" will be tested in the SA Supreme Court as one of the country's ...