Artnet

The Market for Aboriginal Art Is Growing Fast. Here Is What (And Who) You Need to Know to Navigate This Dynamic Scene

The global art world is rapidly becoming aware of this market, but there are some pitfalls to know about if you are looking to buy into it. Installation view of the Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally ...
Denver Westword

See Aboriginal Art from Down Under at The Denver Art Museum

Discover new vantage points of human creativity through The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, on view now ...
Hyperallergic

Aboriginal Women Artists and Their Visions of Infinity

NEW ORLEANS — Despite the million-dollar auction price for works by Aboriginal Australian artists in 2007, the controversy about whether or not Australian Aboriginal art should be included in the ...
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 ...
UVA Today

Australian Artist To Head UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

An artist, educator and writer specializing in Australian indigenous art will be the next director of the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, a search committee announced ...
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 ...
Observer

Yasufumi Nakamori On Aboriginal Art Coming to the Asia Society Museum

On September 17, the Asia Society in New York will open a unique exhibition showcasing the rich history of Aboriginal Australian bark painting. “Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark ...
The Atlantic

The Secrets of Indigenous Art

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous artists. That 1941 MoMA show was full of ancient Native objects, along with ...
Hyperallergic

Traveling Show of Aboriginal Bark Paintings Arrives in New York City

If you’re not looking for it, you might miss a small illustration of the Statue of Liberty in Yolŋu leader and artist Djambawa Marawili’s 2019 eucalyptus bark painting “Americalili Marrtji (Journey to ...
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 ...
The Conversation

‘Art is our voice’: why the government needs to support Indigenous arts, not just sport, in the pandemic

This article contains mentions of the Stolen Generations. The golden rule when organising an arts event with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is to never hold it at the same time as a ...
The Conversation

Returning a name to an artist: the work of Majumbu, a previously unknown Australian painter

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. Arnhem Land rock and bark paintings have fascinated people across the world since ...