First Nations Arts Awards
The annual recognition of cultural heroes in the Indigenous world took place online tonight as COVID denied the event its usual physical form in the Sydney Opera House. It also Read More
Media Muddles Aboriginal Politics
A fascinating study of 45 years' media coverage of important Indigenous issues, beginning with the Larrakia Petition in 1972, concludes that, at last, Aboriginal people appear to be effectively shaping Read More
The War in Mparntwe
Do we have a solution or do we have war in Alice Springs over the long-contended National Aboriginal Art Gallery (NAAG)? The NT Labor Government has finally stamped its feet, Read More
‘Truganini’ ‘Journey Through the Apocalypse’
In doleful monochrome, they seemed so desolate I couldn't bear to look at them. It was a melancholic requiem for the disappeared that reeked of regret without responsibility. Author Cassandra Read More
BIDYADANGA CLOSE-UP
In 1999, a young Daniel Walbidi entered Short St Gallery in Broome. He shyly declared that he lived out at Bidyadanga, a coastal Aboriginal Community 180 kilometres south of Broome, Read More
Boomerang Back to the Start
Bad news (in a time of almost exclusively bad news); hopes for a law that would have made amendments to the Australian Consumer Law to ban the sale or supply Read More
Mrs Ngallametta
One of Australia's most successful Indigenous artists, Mavis Ngallametta, has a wonderful tribute show just opened at the Queensland Art Gallery, a little over a year after she died aged Read More
NATSIAA Pre-Selections Revealed
It's the time of year for excitement and despair amongst the Indigenous art-making community as the Museum Art Gallery of the NT (MAGNT) announces its selection for the big Telstra Read More
Kulinmaya! – Keep Listening!
Is there anything new under the sun??? I imagine that the late Mumu Muke Williams would have been well aware that there wasn't. And I'm beginning to think likewise having Read More
Nothing Revealed
From the Editor in the interests of full disclosure: The Australian Government funds Art Centres, and indeed, Revealed. The actual amounts are listed in a post from last year, Funding Read More
Marginally Good News
In the shadows of the A$130 billion JobKeeper funding that emerged from Parliament on Thursday, a tiny amount of $27 million was added for the arts. $7m of that is Read More
ON & OFF IN ABORIGINAL ART
We do need an uplift at this trying time of our lives. First Nations art and its artist creators are no different. So, credits go to Dallas Gold of, as Read More
the dickens boy
In these troubled times, a good read may be almost as good as a vaccination! And the venerable 84-year old Tom Keneally has pretty much always offered a rattlin' good Read More
Arts Activism
After yesterday's hopeful example of Aboriginal artists in the East Kimberley going 'On Country' to avoid any chance of being exposed to the coronavirus, today offers a potent case of Read More
Out on Country!
I recently encouraged online art buying directly from community art centres in order to keep the Aboriginal art world from falling in a hole. Here's a splendidly positive example of Read More
Another Coronavirus Crisis
As the NT Government sensibly closes off access to remote Indigenous communities in response to the Coronavirus crisis, the foresightful academic, Jon Altman, working with Francis Markham of the ANU Read More