NEW ORLEANS — Despite the million-dollar auction price for works by Aboriginal Australian artists in 2007, the controversy about whether or not Australian Aboriginal art should be included in the ...
Abstract painter and teacher Hans Hofmann delivered one of the art world’s more dubious compliments in the 1930s, when he told Lee Krasner, one of his students, that a piece was “so good you would not ...
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 Dreaming” isn’t quite the right way to put it. For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the Dreaming was a period when giants walked the earth, forming the landscape as we know it through their ...
Aboriginal art is far more than just visually stunning patterns — it is one of the oldest continuous forms of cultural expression in the world. Rooted in storytelling, ritual, and identity, Aboriginal ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Artist Patrik Roggenbeau discovered a unique meaning of dreaming when he was researching aboriginal culture in Australia. His latest work is an exploration into those ...
Joanna Mendelssohn received funding from the Australian Research Council in 2013 to research a project that resulted in Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes (Thames & Hudson, 2018), along with ...
The Coe Gallery, founded by British-Wiradjuri artist Jasmine Coe, takes its Winter exhibition to College Green Vestibules, showcasing authentic indigenous art and the inherited cultural knowledge ...
“Finding something you’re passionate about—whether or not it’s a commercial earner early—is really important.” Ros Moriarty is a Tassie girl who started out as a journalist with Radio Australia, ...
Dillybags were the equivalent of today's backpacks, used by Aboriginal men, women and children to carry and store items. Other pieces appear to be fragments of nets. While these were likely used for ...
A Hobart City councillor has defended her support for a comment on social media threatening to ruin a new council-funded ...