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 ...
Hyperallergic

Is Australian Aboriginal Art Part of the African Diaspora?

Fiona Foley, "HHH" (2004). Courtesy of artist/Niagara Galleries. (via MoCADA.org) I just started reading Toure’s Post Blackness: What It means to be Black Now, which features a number of black artists ...
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 ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Aboriginal rock art may depict Indonesian warships that reached Australia centuries ago

Two painted watercraft at the Awunbarna rock art site in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, do not match the trepang-fishing ...
Colorado Public Radio

Australian Indigenous art front and center at Denver Art Museum exhibit

The largest exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art ever shown in the U.S. is in Denver. “The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art” is showing at the Denver Art Museum until ...
Asia Society

Cross Currents: Collecting Australian Indigenous Art With Respect and Resonance

Join Asia Society for a profound and timely conversation that builds upon the momentum of our critically acclaimed exhibition Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from ...
Hyperallergic

Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a ...
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 Conversation

Australians’ favourites show Aboriginal art can transcend social divisions and art boundaries

New analysis shows landscape art is the most popular visual art genre among Australians, with Aboriginal art coming in second place, followed by portraits and modern art. But Aboriginal art is more ...
Forbes

Sacred Contemporary Aboriginal Art From Australia At Gruin Gallery in Los Angeles

Australian-born and Los Angeles-based, Emerald Gruin has cornered a unique market in the contemporary art scene. Her eponymous Gruin Gallery features Australian artists from a diverse array of ...
The Washington Post

Australian Aboriginal art that transports you to another world

Populated by sharks, snakes and kangaroos, but mostly by densely arrayed lines and shapes, the pictures in “Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting From Yirrkala” represent the ...
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 ...