PAINTING COUNTRY
Most people know and happily accept that canvases by remote Aboriginal artists may look abstract but invariably involve a representation of parts of the Country that is so important to Read More
The Scholls Donate Half their Art
A massive 199 pieces of Aboriginal art are being donated from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection in Miami to three US museums. The lucky trio are the Metropolitan Museum Read More
Death at Kintore
Papunya Tula Artists has announced the death of artist Kumantjayi (Morris) Gibson Tjapaltjarri on Saturday 7th October 2017 at the age of about 60. Kumantjayi was the eldest son of Read More
RETURN OF MUNGO MAN
The bones of Mungo Man, discovered in 1974 and studied in Canberra ever since, will return at last to Lake Mungo in far western NSW on Friday 17th November. And Read More
TARNANTHI 2017
The program has been published for the second Tarnanthi Festival in Adelaide. At the Art Gallery where Director and curator Nici Cumpston holds sway, no fewer than 189 artists are Read More
Carnivale at Bundaberg
Bundaberg, the gateway to the Southern Great Barrier Reef, will play host to a troupe of local and touring artists, acrobats, writers, filmmakers, choir singers and Indigenous designers from 6 Read More
Lighting up the MacDonnell Ranges
The Parrtjima Festival of Light will colour bomb around two kilometres of the MacDonnell Ranges with a light show accompanied to music for a second year. Running over 10 consecutive Read More
Natsiaas 2017
Given the anniversaries celebrated this year - the 1967 Referendum, the Mabo verdict, etc - and the recent Uluru Statement process, it was perhaps inevitable that the 2017 NATSIAAs would Read More
ABORIGINAL ART ECONOMICS
At a time when the whole future of the Indigenous relationship with non-Indigenous Australia is up for discussions like last night's eloquent ABC TV 'Q&A' program, the centrality of art-making Read More
SCHOLL’S NEXT MOVE
Dennis Scholl may have fired up Aboriginal art on the US stage with his overnight Damascene discovery in 2008 of abstraction in Indigenous paintings, leading to a collection that had Read More
APY ART DOMINATES THE WYNNE
After last year's triumphant win by the five Ken Sisters from Amata in the Art Gallery of NSW's annual Wynne Prize for landscape painting, artists across the Lands have got Read More
Anangu Artist Wins $100,000 Prize
A drawing by Aboriginal artist Peter Mungkuri has taken out the inaugural Hadley's Art Prize, which claims to be the world's richest landscape art prize. Mungkuri will take home $100,000 Read More
The End of AAMU
Sadly, the Aboriginal Art Museum of Utrecht (in the Netherlands) is no more. It was innovative, didactic in introducing the Dutch to our Indigenous cultures, it was challenging, it even Read More
YOU ARE HERE
Presented by actress Miranda Tapsell, the TV series of films under the title of You Are Here explores the place of Indigenous people in Australia today. Included in the series are Read More
ART ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Major Indigenous art exhibitions and/or art fairs are opening this month in Queensland and Western Australia “ two, in fact in Queensland, headed by the annual Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Read More
TARNANTHI IN OCTOBER
Artistic Director, Nici Cumpston has announced highlights of the program for the biennial 2017 TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art , which returns to Adelaide this Read More
TJUNGU NGUTJA – from having come together
The efflorescence of imagery that struck in the hothouse conditions of the Men's Painting Room will never be repeated, for these works were created at the moment when the epic Read More
Blak Markets at Barangaroo
The Blak Markets will return to Sydney's spectacular harbour headland park, Barangaroo Reserve, with an Aboriginal art market on Sunday, 2 July. Taking place at the beginning of NAIDOC Week, Read More