LOLA GREENO ““ LIVING TREASURE
The first Indigenous artist/craftsman has been recognised as a Living Treasure “ Master of Australian Craft. Tasmania's Lola Greeno joins a distinguished list of Treasures which includes potters Les Blakebrough Read More
The Martu ‘Did it Together’
Twelve large collaborative desert artworks will go on show at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art next week in a show entitled Martu Art from the Far Western Desert . The Read More
Warlayirti: The Art of Balgo
After a period in which social unrest and an emphasis on film dominated the cultural scene, the revitalisation of Balgo painting continues apace. Two different projects are under way which Read More
KLUGE GOES TO THE TORRES STRAIT
The Kluge-Ruhe Museum “ America's only permanent institution displaying Australian Aboriginal art and educating Americans about it through associations with the University of Virginia “ re-opened earlier this year after Read More
Ricardo Idagi at the Kluge-Ruhe
An exhibition of Melbourne-based Indigenous artist Ricardo Idagi's (Merium) sculptural works is underway at the Kluge-Ruhe. Gurari - Saltwater Drinker comprises 9 works made from a variety of materials - Read More
TWO CHARITY AUCTIONS
With what looks like an unfortunate coincidence of timing, two worthy Indigenous charities are holding art auctions within days of each other. Arts Law is first cab off the rank, Read More
Jenny Crompton wins Victoria’s Richest Indigenous Art Award
Bellbrae artist Jenny Crompton has taken out the State's richest Indigenous art prize, the $30,000 Deadly Art Award at the 2014 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Crompton, who takes much of Read More
DARWIN 2014 – The Bigger Picture
In the wash-up to the 31st National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, it seems possible that the man who lead the charge to free MAGNT (the Museum & Read More
31st NATSIAAs: TONY ALBERT DOES IT AGAIN
The three judges for this 31st NATSIAA Award all come from the south; Tina Baum from the National Gallery, Clotilde Bullen from the WA Gallery and David Broker from the Read More
LIFE IMITATES ART IMITATES ART AT SELLERS PRIZE
Announced tomorrow is the lucky winner of the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize for a work or works which confront issues and themes in sport. As an enthusiastic press release Read More
TARNANTHI ““ THE NEW NAME IN FESTIVALS
South Australia's Premier Jay Weatherill has announced that the State's new Aboriginal visual arts festival will be known as Tarnanthi “ pronounced TAR-NAN-DEE - a local Kaurna word meaning 'to Read More
ABORIGINAL ART ‘COMES HOME’
A significant dinner held in Melbourne last week was a homecoming of sorts for that dominant feature of the Aboriginal art market over the past two decades “ the auction. Read More
ART IS THE VOICE OF OUR PEOPLE – TAKE 2
Hetti Perkins second 'Art+Soul' TV series returns to the ABC tonight, and winds up with a third episode next Tuesday. And the question I asked after previewing her first program Read More
GULPILIL’S COUNTRY
I've often said that the major problem with the Intervention “ and all the hyperventilation about the reported spate of child abuse and domestic violence in remote Aboriginal communities that Read More
FEAR & LOATHING AMONG THE SMSFs
Art values are suffering as a result of misinformation and disproportionate anxiety about changed rules for art investments in Self-Managed Super Funds, says accountant and Indigenous art community expert, Brian Read More
ART IS THE VOICE OF OUR PEOPLE
So, Hetti Perkins is back with us, refreshed from a sabbatical period post-Art Gallery of NSW, where she used to be the first, and so far only, senior curator of Read More
RED OCHRE FOR HECTOR BURTON
At the end of May, the supreme national Indigenous arts awards “ the Red Ochres “ were handed out by the Australia Council. And the senior, peer-reviewed award went to Read More
GORDON BENNETT 1955 to 3 June 2014
I am an Indigenous Australian. My mother is an Indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out Read More
NATSIAA SURPRISES
The great names are there at this year's National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards “ Namatjira, Marawili, Marika, Burton, Thaiday, Petyarre, Mabo, Yalandja and Nadjamerrek. But rather than Read More
MAGNT ushers in New Board
With the legislation now passed which establishes the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) as a statutory authority, a new board has been appointed as it prepares Read More