Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aboriginal art collection sells for more than $2 million in historic Sotheby's London auction

A stand-alone collection of Aboriginal art has gone under the hammer for the first time at a major auction house in London, with some pieces attracting world-record prices. The 75 high-quality and ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australia's Indigenous art industry is worth a quarter of a billion dollars, so why do artists only end up with a fraction of the profits?

Aboriginal art is becoming a big business, with both Australian consumers and tourists wanting to take home a memento from Down Under. In 2019-20, $250 million worth of Indigenous art and crafts were ...
Artnet

$2 Million Aboriginal Art Auction Pays Off for Sotheby’s London

The first-ever sale of Aboriginal art at Sotheby’s London on June 10 was an unexpected success, bringing in over $2 million for 75 lots. The auction was mostly drawn from the collection of Dutch ...
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 ...
Artnet

An Aboriginal Art Expert Picks the Best 8 Lots by Australian Indigenous Artists Hitting the Block This Week at Sotheby’s

First, Larry Gagosian filled his Madison Avenue premises with work by Australia’s Aboriginal desert painters. Then, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a new gallery dedicated to contemporary ...
World Socialist Web Site

A major discovery of Aboriginal cave paintings in Australia

In May, scientists and archaeologists from the Australian Museum uncovered a 4,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art site at Eagles Reach, literally on Sydney’s doorstep. Despite the abundance of many ...
PBS

Aboriginal Australian artists are having a moment in the U.S. These women are at the forefront.

Almost exactly a year ago, walking through the Seattle Art Museum with my uncle, I stopped cold in front of a piece of art called “Munurru,” or “Rough,” by Aboriginal Australian artist Galuma Maymuru.
The Digital Universe

BYU’s Museum of Art welcomes Aboriginal Australian artists

Marlene Nampitjina speaks about her art with MOA visitors. Nampitjina shared stories about her family and their connections to her art. (Emmeline Blythe) BYU’s Museum of Art hosted an artist panel to ...
World Socialist Web Site

Papunya Tula—the birthplace of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art

The groundbreaking Papunya Tula, Genesis and Genius exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales was the first major retrospective by artists from Papunya in Australia’s Western Desert. Consisting ...
Hyperallergic

Is Australian Aboriginal Art Part of the African Diaspora?

Fiona Foley, "HHH" (2004). Courtesy of artist/Niagara Galleries. (via MoCADA.org) I just started reading Toure’s Post Blackness: What It means to be Black Now, which features a number of black artists ...
Observer

Why the Sudden Spotlight on Australian Aboriginal Art?

Makinti Napanangka, Kungka Kutjarra (Two Women), 2001. Synthetic polymer paint on linen. On view at Gagosian, New York City. Rob McKeever, Makinti Napanangka, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, ...