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 ...
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 ...
In 1770, a ship called The Endeavour made land in a lovely cove not yet called Botany Bay, observed by Gweagal men. Spears were waved on one side; shots fired on the other. An Aboriginal man was ...
The National Museum in Canberra has purchased two rare pen and ink drawings thought to have been created more than a century ago by an Aboriginal artist. Buckley’s Escape, drawn by Aboriginal artist ...
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 ...
It was an hour after I had left the Utopia Art Centre, in remote, central Australia, when our van turned off the bumpy dirt track and into the bush. We were in the Northern Territory, one of the ...
It was an hour after I had left the Utopia Art Centre, in remote, central Australia, when our van turned off the bumpy dirt track and into the bush. We were in the Northern Territory, one of the ...
Looking into Lake Tahoe’s water artist Derek Glaskin finds inspiration for his art. Glaskin, 44, who is a native of Australia believes water is the connection between modern and ancient people. His ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Steve Martin was astonished the first time he walked into a room full of Australian Aboriginal art. “It was ...