The Auction Time of Year
Toward the end of 1991, women's Awelye ceremonies were being held in Utopia. December was overwhelmingly humid with hot northerly winds. The anticipation of rain and the ongoing ceremonial activity Read More
AUSTRALIA’S CROWN JEWELS
I've written much in recent months about the absence of progress in developing the hoped-for National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs. And, just a few days ago, I discovered Read More
Re-imagining a museum of our First Nations
This story is re-published from The Conversation under Creative Commons license. It was written by Kieran Wong, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University. Kieran Wong also consults to COX Architecture, Read More
Going Native in the Kitchen
John Newton is keen that we eat 'The Oldest Foods on Earth', ie Australian Indigenous foods, grown (sometimes cultivated), cooked and tasted here for up to 60,000 years. He's so Read More
Emu Runner
So, pretty much wherever you look these days, there's an Aboriginal film or TV series. Last year's AACT Awards hailed Warwick Thornton's 'Sweet Country' in just about all major creative Read More
Cultural Momentum
I never thought my first live sighting of and listening to the great Chinese/American cellist and social activist, Yo-Yo-Ma would be in the great open void beneath Barangaroo Park. But Read More
Warlimpirrnga Wins Copyright Claim
The successful, if gloomy, Netflix TV series, 'After Life' in which the English actor Ricky Gervais plays a widowed man in a state of aggressively deep depression, chose “ for Read More
It’s Time for Tarnanthi
Somebody once announced It's Time, and won a famous election. Now another Somebody “ Djambawa Marawili AM “ has declared, This is the time when we should show the culture Read More
Natives Go Wild
Is the mischievously entitled 'Natives Go Wild' our first Indigenous cabaret? The Sydney Opera House's own Head of First Nations' Programming, Rhoda Roberts has written this bitter sweet entertainment and Read More
Jandamarra: Sing for the Country : Ngalanyabarra Muwayi.u
If you are in Sydney on Friday, it would be a mistake to miss out on the single performance of 'Jandamarra', the dramatic cantata telling the story of Aboriginal Australia's Read More
Impasse in Alice
Last week in the confidential part of its executive development committee, the Alice Springs Town Council, secretly voted to reject a swap offered it by the NT Government of its Read More
FIBRE ALCHEMY
From ghost net sculpture to body amour, a new fibre art survey show The Alchemists, brought together by FORM in Perth, draws together diverse contemporary weaving practice from Indigenous artists Read More
WE ARE COMING TO SEE YOU
This book is a rare treat in offering both fabulous pictures of rock art in the west Kimberley while also giving the local Gaambera, Wunambal and Dambeemangaddee peoples' understanding of Read More
Mparntwe Muddles On
A week ago, the Alice Springs Town Council rejected the NT Government proposal for a complex land swap which would build the new National Aboriginal Art Gallery on the current Read More
Fondation Opale Glows Opalescent
A follow-up to my Menil Collection story from Houston “ for my enthusiasm for America's current positivity towards Aboriginal art may have allowed me to miss the Big Story. Which Read More
‘Mapa Wiya’ (Your Map“™s Not Needed)
The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas is opening today its first major museum exhibition devoted to Australian Aboriginal art:'Mapa Wiya' (Your Map's Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Swiss Read More
Sydney Goes Contemporary
It's that time of year again for the now-annual Sydney Contemporary art fair at Carriageworks in Sydney. Ever innovative, this year the show began early in the unlikely setting of Read More
Victorian Bonanza!
Victoria is positively buzzing with the exciting breadth of First Nations' art and craft this month. I wonder how it's all coincided? But let's start with the Bendigo show of Read More
Woven Furniture
Koskela, one of Australia's leading furniture and design brands, is presenting Ngalya, celebrating the 10th anniversary of Koskela's social impact projects working with Australia's First Nations People. Koskela has opened Read More