Utrecht’s AAMU to Close
The only museum in Europe to focus exclusively on contemporary Australian Aboriginal art will close mid-2017 as its private funding comes to an end. Utrecht's AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Read More
Nuclear Dating for Rock Art
A new technique, developed at ANSTO's Centre for Accelerator Science, has made it possible to produce some of the first reliable radiocarbon dates for Australian rock art in a study Read More
Melbourne Does Indigenous
Overnight, Melbourne is the centre of the Australian Indigenous universe with two substantial shows opening today - one of them a first-ever appearance of Aboriginal art at the defiantly non-Indigenous Read More
Lost Namarari Found after 35 years
A 44-year-old painting by Papunya Tula pioneer Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri that was presumed missing after many years of searching has been discovered in the most unexpected of places. With an Read More
STARS THAT HAVE PASSED
The brilliance of the art of the APY (Anangu Pitjanjatjara Yankunyjatjara) Lands has been obvious to people like me lucky enough to travel widely through the Aboriginal art world since Read More
A WINTER OF NEW AWARDS
Entries open today for the 2017 34th Telstra NATSIAAs. And 2017 offers opportunities to a new generation of artists with the creation of two NEW categories in the Awards. Entries Read More
Going Tiwi in Adelaide
There's still time to attend Adelaide's Spirit Festival Presents and experience a world of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Spirit through original fashion, dance, music, visual art, creative workshops Read More
Nyilpirr Spider Snell
Artist, dancer, teacher, and latterly, film-star, Nyilpirr Spider Snell has died in Fitzroy Crossing, the Kimberley town he settled in after a desert birth and a working life as a Read More
TARNANTHI returns
BHP Billiton, the State Government of South Australia and Art Gallery of South Australia will today announce a truly impressive $17.54 million partnership to present the TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Read More
MILINGIMBI MEMORIES
In August, I wrote about the ceremonial makarrata that was held on the Crocodile Island of Milingimbi, off Arnhemland that bound the 53 signatories to its final agreement to make Read More
Canning Stock Route On the Move
Renowned Indigenous artists are visiting Japan for two festival days this month, celebrating the opening of the National Museum of Australia's One Road: Aboriginal Art from Australia's Deserts exhibition in Read More
Nganampa Kililpil: Our Stars in Gymea
A major new Aboriginal art exhibition featuring 50 new and commissioned works from across the vast APY Lands of South Australia will open at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery in Sydney's Read More
WAITING FOR ALLIGATOR
A play less like Samuel Beckett's could hardly be imagined. But like 'Godot', we do spend a good part of 'The Drover's Wife' waiting for, but never meeting Alligator, the Read More
CLINTON NAIN : PASSIVE – AGGRESSIVE DREAM
Clinton Nain is a shape-shifter. Predictability isn't something you should expect from an artist who has been identified closely with the Torres Strait despite being born in Melbourne of mixed Read More
PARRTJIMA ““ TELLING STORIES THROUGH LIGHT
The success that has been the Vivid light festival in Sydney is about to go bush; two and a half kilometres of the West MacDonnell Ranges outside Alice Springs will Read More
Edward Albee, Art Collector
News from America that Edward Albee, one the 20th Century's greatest playwrights, has died aged 88. I had the good fortune to meet him six years ago and talk to Read More
SKIN & BONES MAP THE GARDEN PALACE
Fourteen thousand (or is it fifteen thousand) white gypsum shields litter Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden for the next two and a half weeks. When seen them from the air, the Read More
DESERT MOBBED
Author: Jeremy Eccles Why have I never been before??? I've experienced both the NATSIAAs/Telstras in Darwin frequently and CIAF in Cairns occasionally “ both important gatherings of the Indigenous art Read More
Goulburn Art Gallery is Speaking Colours
While English has become the first language of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it is far from being the only language used. A new exhibition opening this Saturday Read More
SCHOLL’S WOMEN
America continues to be challenged and delighted by Aboriginal art in ways we've forgotten in Australia “ and once again it's the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection that's setting the Read More