Artnet

Australian Indigenous Art Is Having a Moment. Here’s How It Happened

While Indigenous Australian art is an incredibly broad and diverse term, encompassing a range of First Nations cultures and creators, one intriguing facet is the role art centers in Indigenous ...
UVA Today

Australian Artist To Head UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

An artist, educator and writer specializing in Australian indigenous art will be the next director of the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, a search committee announced ...
Asia Society

Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala

Yäma Munuŋgirritj, ca. 1920–1987. Yarrwiḏi-Gumatj clan. Gurruŋawuy, 1961. Natural pigments on bark. H. 28 x W. 15 in. (71.1 x 38.1 cm). Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of ...
Denver Westword

See Aboriginal Art from Down Under at The Denver Art Museum

Discover new vantage points of human creativity through The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, on view now ...
Hyperallergic

Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art

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 ...
The New York Times

A Ravishing Show of Aboriginal Art, Some in the U.S. for the First Time

The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an exhibition at the Asia Society. By Arthur Lubow The Aboriginal art of northeast ...
Asia Society

Cross Currents: Collecting Australian Indigenous Art With Respect and Resonance

Join Asia Society for a profound and timely conversation that builds upon the momentum of our critically acclaimed exhibition Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from ...
The Washington Post

A show of Australian Indigenous art should have inspired awe. It’s a mess.

Admirers of Australia’s Indigenous artists have been pushing for a serious, large-scale presentation of their work at a major U.S. museum for decades. The quality of the work undoubtedly warrants it: ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art’ Review: Creative Native Cultures

“The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art,” an immense exhibition of nearly 200 works by more than 130 artists, is fascinating, frustrating, engaging and baffling. This isn’t surprising, ...
The Indianapolis Star

Newfields' Lume will reopen in May with Indigenous Australian art

The newest iteration of Newfields' Lume will immerse patrons in the art of Indigenous Australia. Starting May 10, 120 projectors will beam the work of more than 100 contemporary artists from across ...
The New York Times

Indigenous Australian Art Takes Center Stage at TEFAF Maastricht

This year’s fair will include a booth dedicated solely to First Nations Australian art, from bark paintings to works by Emily Kam Kngwarray. By Will Higginbotham In a first for TEFAF Maastricht, ...