CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a ...
Amid growing recognition of Indigenous art in the contemporary art world, a new partnership is set to elevate the global presence of Indigenous works. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., ...
The National Gallery of Victoria’s complementary exhibitions Colony: Australia 1770–1861 and Colony: Frontier Wars approach the colonisation of Australia from two different perspectives. The first is ...
Beginnings -- Landscapes: Possession and Dispossession -- Objects: Indigenous Signs in Colonial Design -- Artworks: Indigenous Signs in Colonial Art -- Presences: Indigenous Landscapes, Artworks and ...
In his 1980 Boyer Lecture, art historian Bernard Smith said a “white blanket of forgetfulness” had been thrown over the horrors of Australia’s colonial past. Renowned Australian artists, Waanyi woman ...
Can art have social impact? For years, the artist Richard Bell has been working at the crossroad of art and political issues, advocating for Indigenous sovereignty through activism. Through his ...
Ngura Puḻka at the National Gallery of Australia is a landmark exhibition of 30 paintings by Indigenous artists in the APY Arts Centre Collective, which was investigated over claims white workers had ...
"19th-century Australian art: M.J.M. Carter Collection: Art Gallery of South Australia was published by the Art Gallery Board ... on the occasion of the exhibition The M.J.M. Carter Collection: A ...
Zoe Holman speaks to author Liz Conor about her new book 'Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women' (UWA Pubilshing). They discuss how industrialised print helped enshrine understandings of ...