Warwick Thornton discusses Samson and Delilah with the WSWS
Samson and Delilah writer, director and cinematographer Warwick Thornton spoke with the World Socialist Web Site this month when his film screened at the Message Sticks film festival in Sydney. Read More
Painting of child actor is Archibald People’s Choice
VINCENT FANTAUZZO won the Archibald People's Choice Prize for the second consecutive time today, with a portrait of the young Aboriginal actor Brandon Walters. Walters became a star overnight when Read More
Desart welcomes $10m industry funding
The head of Desart in central Australia says the Federal Government has got its priorities right in granting extra money to the Aboriginal art industry. A $10 million package for Read More
Aboriginal Art Shines in Charlottesville
The surprising Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is part of the University of Virginia (which was designed by Thomas Jefferson). The small museum opened in 1997 through a gift by businessman Read More
Interview with Warwick Thornton, writer/director of Samson & Delilah
Interview with Warwick Thornton, writer/director of Samson & Delilah: Few first-time feature filmmakers are greeted with the kind of accolades bestowed upon Australian director Warwick Thornton, whose triumphant Cannes-selected indigenous Read More
Samson and Delilah
Some might say it is a simple love story, but delve deeper and you will find one of the richest narratives told in Australian cinema. In an isolated community in Read More
Venice Reflux: Doctorin’ The Tardis
All that is missing from Gladwell's imagery is a large monolith and some token Aboriginals with a spear and shield. Vernon Ah Kee rises from the pages of The Australian Read More
Introducing the Australian Art Market Blog – australianartmarket.com
As a Sydney, Australia based art market analyst and art consultant I am sure you would not be surprised to hear that I have a particular interest in Australian art Read More
Minister lashes the ‘culture vultures’ of Aboriginal art
Responding to growing disquiet in central Australia, where Aboriginal artists are angry that secret cultural material contained in paintings is being exhibited internationally, NT Arts and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Alison Read More
Susan Lowish – Treasuring Aboriginal Art
Host/Speaker Susan Lowish, Ph.D. Sponsored by Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Type Speakers - Arts/Performing Arts Location Kluge-Ruhe Date and Time Friday May 15, 2009 7:00 PM (EST) Description Susan Lowish, Read More
Mike Anderson new director of AAMU
As of 1 June Mike Anderson, presently Cultural Governance programme leader at Kunst & Zaken, will be director of the AAMU Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art in Utrecht. He will Read More
GLORIA GOES TO PARIS
Celebrated Utopia artist, Gloria Petyarr has become the first Australian artist commissioned by Hermes, the swanky international fashion house based in Paris. Gloria's Leaf design was selected by Hermes for Read More
WA ART PRIZE NOMINEES NAMED
Fifteen Indigenous artists and one artists collective are nominated for Australia's richest art prizes. They are: Tony Albert (born 1981 Townsville QLD, lives Brisbane QLD) Â Lorraine Connelly-Northey (born 1962 Read More
Interview with Leon Paroissien and Bernice Murphy
Interview with Leon Paroissien and Bernice Murphy This is an excerpt from the interview which looks at Aboriginal art only. The full interview can be found at the url below. Read More
Aboriginal Art Exhibit Opens at the Fowler
In 1971 in the tiny settlement of Papunya, a group of Australian Aboriginal men began transferring their sacred ceremonial designs onto pieces of masonite board. Since this crucial transformative period, Read More
Other side art: Trevor Nickolls, a survey of paintings and drawings 1972““2007, 13 May to 2 August 2009 (and national tour 2009““10)
Other side art is the first museum survey of the work of South Australian indigenous artist, Trevor Nickolls, known as the father of urban aboriginal art (Brenda Croft, former senior Read More
Central Australian Film Samson and Delilah screens at the Cannes Film Festival
Samson and Delilah, written and directed by Warwick Thornton and shot in central Australia screens at the Cannes Film Festival next week. As quoted from the director: 'Samson & Delilah Read More
The 3 Kings
Sarrita and Tarisse King will pay homage to their father, the highly respected artist and elder, William (Bill) King Jungala (1966 “ 2007), in a powerful exhibition at Kate Owen Read More
Visiting the old outback haunts of an Aboriginal water colourist
Aboriginal art to many tourists in Australia means paintings on bare rock and the Rainbow Serpent creation myth rendered in rich colours with the dot technique. Aborigines and watercolours hardly Read More