RUMINATIONS ON PROVENANCE AND AUTHENTICITY
Recently I caught one of the BBC's more interesting TV shows, Fake or Fortune. Hosted by Fiona Bruce of Antiques Roadshow fame, it traced the provenance of a possible missing Read More
NEW HIGH-TECH CONSERVATION & ATTRIBUTION CENTRE IN MELBOURNE
Jeremy Eccles interviews Prof Robyn Sloggett, Director of the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (CCMC) at the University of Melbourne about art fakery, new technology - and her special relationship Read More
SCHOLL SHOW
In 2008, collectors Colin and Liz Laverty set out to emphasise just how comfortable they felt in moving on from admiring and buying some of Australia's most adventurous Abstract Expressionist Read More
2015 ““ YEAR OF AWARDS
If you wanted to survey the state of Indigenous art today in all its richness and variety, then a jetset snapshot national tour at the beginning of August would give Read More
WA Awards Artists Chosen
The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, one of the richest Indigenous arts prizes in the country, were founded in 2008 to celebrate the scope, diversity and excellence of art from Read More
BALGO AT ART ATRIUM
This was a speech I delivered at the opening of this Art Atrium exhibition in Sydney: I feel a close affinity with Balgo “ or Wirrimanu as the current location Read More
AWARD FOR ART CO-ORDINATOR
Arnhemland arts centre co-ordinator Will Stubbs will be presented with the prestigious Australia Council Visual Arts Award (Advocate) for 2015 at the Council's inaugural awards ceremony in Sydney on 19 Read More
Gone But Not Forgotten
If anyone wanted proof of the tribal differences that still define Aboriginal Australia then the individual painting styles that four recently dead women artists made their own ought to be Read More
The life of Daisy Munmurria Andrews
A service commerating the life of Daisy Munmurria Andrews (1935 - January 2015), much loved artist from the West Kimberley, will be held tomorrow at the Fitzroy Crossing Recreation Hall Read More
Major Artist of the Kimberley, Jack Dale
Set to open at the Burrinja Gallery just out of Melbourne is an exhibition of one of the great artists of the Kimberley, Jack Dale Mengenen. Jack Dale was famous Read More
Don’t ‘Kill The Messenger’
Nakkiah Lui is hot. The Gamillaroi and Torres Strait Islander writer now has her second play on at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney “ and she's moved Upstairs from Read More
The Wild Australia Troupe
A little before 1892, a group of 27 Indigenous people came together from the groups of Wakaya, Kuthant, Kurtjar, Arapa, Walangama, Mayikulan, Kabi Kabi, Kalkadoon and Muralag. There were 22 Read More
LAVERTY SALE
I first met the Lavertys “ Colin and Liz “ in 1995, at the peak of their collecting days. It happened in Warrmun, the painting heart of the East Kimberley. Read More
Darwin Art Fair Registrations Open
Art Centre registrations open online from the 23 February for the 2015 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF), this year to be held from the 7th to the 9th of August. Read More
Farewell Sally Gabori
"Danda ngijinda dulk, danda ngijinda malaa, danda ngad - This is my Land, this is my Sea, this is who I am," said Sally Gabori about her solo exhibition at Read More
MAGNT MODIFICATION
The Museum and Art Gallery of the NT advertised for a Director at the weekend. No news of the sacking of the current Director “ Pierre Arpin “ had leaked Read More
Archie and Jandamarra meet the Tandanya Studio
The Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute (NACI) is presenting three separate exhibitions at their Adelaide Galleries, opening this week, which will display works by two contemporary Aboriginal artists, Archie Moore Read More
WALKING WITH BUNGAREE
This is the most important project I've worked on in my life. Veteran Indigenous curator, Djon Mundine's statement quite shocked an audience on Middle Head on Saturday, especially those who Read More
ROTHWELL’S RADICAL RESOLUTION
It's increasingly important to read The Australian newspaper for an understanding of Indigenous affairs. For the culture that Aboriginal Art Directory readers care about emerges only from the conditions in Read More
MAJOR INDIGENOUS EXHIBITION AT BRITISH MUSEUM
The Australian National Museum and the British Museum are joining forces to present one of the most important exhibitions of Indigenous Australian art and artefacts ever staged. 'Enduring Civilisation', as Read More