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 ...

It's the last week to see Desert Painters of Australia at Gagosian in Beverly Hills, which features work by indigenous Australians. “The story [behind these paintings] starts in the 1950s -- not the ...

While Indigenous Australian art is an incredibly broad and diverse term, encompassing a range of First Nations cultures and creators, one intriguing facet is the role art centers in Indigenous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A view of “Significant” at D’Lan Contemporary’s Melbourne gallery. Courtesy D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne. Photo: Gus Davidson A renewed surge of interest sparked by biennials and major institutions ...

Makinti Napanangka, Kungka Kutjarra (Two Women), 2001. Synthetic polymer paint on linen. On view at Gagosian, New York City. Rob McKeever, Makinti Napanangka, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, ...

The Australian Cultural Fields: National and Transnational Dynamics project discussed in this article was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council (DP140101970).

Australian Aboriginal art, ranging from ceremonial works painted with ochre on eucalyptus tree bark in the late 1950s, to huge, contemporary abstracts, will be sold for the first time by Sotheby’s in ...

Alex Burchmore does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...