Controversy in Newcastle
Blak Douglas and Adam Geczy are teaming up again for an exhibition at The Lock Up Gallery in Newcastle called The Most Gaoled Race on Earth. And it comes with Read More
Imagined Cultures
39 Oceana objects that Indigenous peoples lived with and used between 1830 and 1950 will go on show at the Bard Graduate Centre Gallery in New York later this month Read More
2016 NATSIAAs
It's that time again “ time for Indigenous artists to enter the biggest prize of them all. Here's the official announcement: "Australia's longest running and most prestigious Indigenous art award Read More
47,000 Years of Aboriginal Genomics
The first complete sequences of the Y chromosomes of Aboriginal Australian men have revealed a deep indigenous genetic history tracing all the way back to the initial settlement of the Read More
ONE BILLION BEATS
Romaine Moreton is a poet “ her mastery of the English language (rather than her tribal Quandamooka and Bundjalung languages) is unquestioned. And she has a PhD to prove it. Read More
THE PASSING OF TWO GREAT LADIES
In recent days, the Australian art world has lost both Jukuja Dolly Snell from Fitzroy Crossing and Jarran Jan Billycan from Bidydanga “ two women from deep in the deserts Read More
ALL OVER THE U.S.
Why is it so.....that there are more, and more considered exhibitions of Aboriginal art currently on in America than here in Australia? The recent pattern there of solid shows of Read More
Art Mob’s Top 20 from 2015
We don't often examine the commercial side of Aboriginal art-making much on AAD. So the initiative of Euan Hills of Hobart's Art Mob in totalling up his sales for 2015, Read More
Aboriginal Artworks Go Missing
Several Aboriginal artworks have been taken from a private home in Fremantle WA during the last week, part of a larger haul including international works. We have also recently received Read More
AUSTRALIA DAY HONOURS
Aboriginal Art Directory is delighted to congratulate the following people, long involved in the world of Aboriginal art, on their Honours - awarded on 26th January 2016. Sadly, no painters Read More
Top Job in Aboriginal Art
Senior Resource & Development Officer (Program Manager) Leadership Role in the Aboriginal Art Sector Founded in 1987, The Association of Northern Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists (ANKAAA) is a leading Read More
TIWI + JAZZ REVIEW
A wonderfully warm (well, hot actually) performance in the Spiegeltent as part of the Sydney Festival brought about the unlikely combo of a Sydney jazz band and a number of Read More
Indigenous artists encouraged to enter art award
With the first-ever win by an Aboriginal artist “ 65-year-old Ben Ward from Kunnunurra, WA “ of the $10,000 John Fries Award last year, the organisers are keen to receive Read More
‘CUT THE SKY’ REVIEW
In its latest work for the Sydney Festival, the Broome-based dance theatre, Marrugeku continues with the theme of diminishing optimism for Aborigines in The Kimberley that started with their work, Read More
Is There Anything Comparable in Australia???
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is awarding US$815,000 to the University of Virginia to create a research center for the study of the indigenous art of Australia and the Americas. Read More
CULTURE v POLITICS IN SYDNEY
After all the trumpeting about the two big International Art Series shows on this summer in Sydney “ 'The Greats' from the Scottish National Galleries at AGNSW and Grayson Perry Read More
underSTATEd 2016
Opening on Monday is underSTATEd, NSW Parliament's biennial exhibition. And this year 44 works on paper are being shown - a collection which includes art by Badger Bates, Danny Eastwood, Read More
CHRISTMAS BOOKS
The spate of Aboriginal art publishing seems to have diminished just a tad this year. Which may be no bad thing for avid collectors with limited shelf space! They do Read More
TRACEY MOFFATT FOR VENICE
Photographer, film-maker and witty film montage-maker, Tracey Moffatt has been selected as the sole Australian representative for the 2017 Venice Biennale. She will be the first Indigenous-identifying artist to get Read More
GRAYSON RECANTS
¦when I see those Indigenous paintings crop up in contemporary art shows, I go: ˜Are they contemporary artists?, remarked Grayson Perry in an article published by the Sydney Morning Herald Read More