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 ...
Over the past decade, there has been a surge of interest—both institutional and from collectors—in Australian First Nations art. No longer confined to the margins of the market, a select number of ...
Even just a few years ago, the notion that Australian Indigenous art would be a genre embraced by not just the institutional art world but the market as well, would be a great surprise. Now though, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Admirers of Australia’s Indigenous artists have been pushing for a serious, large-scale presentation of their work at a major U.S. museum for decades. The quality of the work undoubtedly warrants it: ...
Editor’s Note: Traders highlights the business of global trading by showcasing extraordinary individuals worldwide who are trading goods and services across borders. Share the Aboriginal Art that ...
“The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art,” an immense exhibition of nearly 200 works by more than 130 artists, is fascinating, frustrating, engaging and baffling. This isn’t surprising, ...
If you have ever wondered what it feels like to be a fish, you have your chance at the Denver Art Museum from now until the end of July. Or at least you have the chance to to take on the vantage point ...
To the Australian aborigines, whose cultural history dates back an estimated 65,000 years, the period when the Earth was shaped, is the Dreamtime, the time before time was known. Robert Lawlor writes: ...
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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 ...
Metaphors of cooking and eating are a firm favourite among writers on multiculturalism. No comment on cultural contact seems complete without the proverbial “melting pot”. This metaphor tends to imply ...
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