Archie Moore’s ‘kith and kin’ bought by the Nation
Is the 2024 Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner, Archie Moore going to be permanently employed recreating his enveloping artwork kith and kin around the world now that it’s been ‘bought’ Read More
Kluge-Ruhe Moves Along
After 27 years as the director of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Margo Smith AM has announced that she will retire in June next year. Read More
Big But Beautiful
It’s Telstra NATSIA Awards time again – amazingly the 41st such annual prize session, 33 of them funded by Telstra. Currently that generosity is to the tune of $175,000 to Read More
Terry Ingram 1942-2024
It may seem odd to record the death of Terry Ingram the long-term Saleroom correspondent of the Australian Financial Review, for whom First Nations art was of comparatively secondary importance. Read More
Forthcoming Events
There are six major First Nations events poised to happen over the Aussie winter, headed by the launch of the 15th edition of the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair tomorrow in Read More
Whitefella Way
Photographer Jon Rhodes is famed for his sensitive capture of Aboriginal Australia over many an exhibition of black and white images. So, in 2006, when he could no longer obtain Read More
Tipoti is NAIDOC Hero
The Australian National Maritime Museum (and Aboriginal Art Directory) congratulates Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait artist Alick Tipoti on being recognised as this year’s NAIDOC Caring for Country and Culture Awardee. Given Read More
Destiny (and others) Dies
The world, especially the urban Blak art world, has recently lost one of its few really witty visual satirists, Destiny Deacon. 2022 Red Ochre winner and subject of a major Read More
Wynne and Archie
At last, you may say, he’s been to the Archibald Prize – which runs until 8th September. And is as popular as ever, judging by the milling throngs this morning Read More
Truth-Telling Photos
Simon Chan at Sydney’s Art Atrium gallery has fingers in many pies. He didn’t earn his AM simply for selling art. His connections through Chinese community groups and the NSW Read More
Telstra Art Award Finalists Announced by Language
This year's Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Awards Telstra (NATSIAA) finalists have been announced and, as Jeremy Eccles comments, there's a lot of new names and, for the first Read More
All Is Revealed
Western Australia is nothing if not patriotic, and occasionally it thinks it ought to become a country separate from the rest of Australia. Possibly as a result, they do things Read More
Last Chance to Comment
Dear Readers, As you are the most expert people in the matter of authenticity in the matter of Indigenous art and craft, may I remind you that June 15th is Read More
Venice Indigenised
While Australian media has been proudly celebrating the Venice Biennale win by Blak artist Archie Moore of the nation’s first ever Golden Lion (for best national pavilion), the Guardian’s arts Read More
Christian Thompson Sinologue
The inherent scholar in Dr Christian Thompson AO DPhil (it’s not a PhD at Oxford, Christian!) has almost inevitably lead on from his florid photographic examination of his Bidjara personality Read More
Oceania Sweeps the Golden Lions at Venice
Amazing news from La Serenissima. For the first time in the Venice Biennale’s 120 year existence, Australia, which has been there since 1954, has been awarded the Golden Lion for Read More
Fairs Faring
The dry season oop north approaches, and so do the Big Two – the Indigenous art fairs in Cairns and Darwin. First off the blocks is Cairns – now 15 Read More
Naala Badu at AGNSW
Hurrah! The Art Gallery of NSW has belatedly come up with an Aboriginal name for its new $344m building – and a matching name for the 132 year old sandstone Read More