Sotheby’s NY Inaugural Aboriginal Art Auction
The first dedicated Aboriginal art auction in the US by an international auction house was held by Sotheby's in New York on December 13. The sale surpassed its high estimate Read More
Festivals in the Blak
With the ubiquity of Indigenous cultural practice today, you just can't put on a festival without it. That bold statement by the non-Indigenous Iain Grandage, newly arrived as Director of Read More
Cairns Airport Commission
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) and Cairns Airport are seeking creative submissions from Queensland's Indigenous artists to have their artworks featured prominently within the Airport's newly redeveloped T2 Domestic Terminal. Read More
KNOWLEDGE GROUND
"Dance is so ephemeral; we felt we owed it to acknowledge 30 years of dance and more than 200 alumni - dancers, designers, musicians, etc, and, above all, the cultural Read More
Daniel Boyd Shines Again
Internationally renowned architect Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates and award-winning Sydney-based contemporary Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd have been chosen to design a new public square and artwork near Circular Read More
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