Australian Indigenous art
Australian indigenous art
The Indigenous artist Harriette Bryant Created delves into the human cost of the tests conducted by the UK in South Australia in the 1950s
Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’
Opening at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, next year, The Stars We Do Not See will include highlights that are "globally recognised as undisputed masterpieces"
The Australian government pays the major expenses of repatriation, making it easier for cash-strapped museums to engage with the often expensive and time-consuming process
The multi-city occasion will offer unprecedented access to and insight on the country’s art scene
While a referendum to recognise Indigenous people failed, the country’s cultural institutions are striving to reflect their lives
A team of Aboriginal women artists, working in Australia's far north, spent two years weaving the 100m-long work from local plant material
Plus, the life and work of the pioneering Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, and a revealing manuscript by Paul Gauguin
The Indigenous painter, whose survey opens at the National Gallery of Australia this week, only started her artistic career in her mid-70s
Australia’s new cultural initiative launches its international arm at Frieze London with a group show co-curated by the Indigenous artist Tony Albert
The event, one of the most remote art festivals in the world, features more than 280 artists
Objects handed over as part of the extensive repatriation project include shell dolls, bark baskets and spear throwers
An independent review will assess allegations that white studio staff painted on canvases attributed to leading Aboriginal artists
New applications for artificial intelligence can help researchers identify millennia-old rock art more easily
Works going on show include a ticker tape calculating what the British government owes Indigenous Australians for use of their country during colonisation
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, who died in 2015 and whose work has been embroiled in the scandal surrounding the dealer who “discovered” it, has her first major museum show outside Australia
The Sydney Modern Project—due to open in December—is the Australian city’s largest cultural development since the creation of its opera house
Exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia opening today aims to provoke discussions around Aboriginal heritage
Ngurra precinct in Canberra will provide a home for returned ancestral remains in the heart of the capital
The show features works by artists from Canada, New Zealand and Australia and considers themes and politics around water
The festival drew criticism last month for an art project that would crowd-source blood from Indigenous and Aboriginal people
Plus, art under threat in Putin's Russia and George Shaw on Thomas Jones. Produced in association with Christie's
The exhibition brings together museum-quality pieces, most consigned by US collectors
Some European and American museums have bought work by Aboriginal artists but there is no broad base of collectors outside Australia for such paintings and no consensus that this work qualifies as “art”