It was an hour after I had left the Utopia Art Centre, in remote, central Australia, when our van turned off the bumpy dirt ...

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 ...

The Australian Aboriginal art market is reportedly worth almost $200 million. Although the contemporary art movement on the continent is a century old, it wasn’t until the late 1980s that Aboriginal ...

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 ...

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: ...

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, ...

A sale at Sotheby’s New York in November will mark the first time that an international auction house will host a sale of Australian Aboriginal art in the US. Sotheby’s is relocating its annual ...

The maliwawa image collected from the aboriginal Namunidjbuk estate in the Wellington Range of Australia depicts a macropod. (Courtesy of Paul Taçon, Griffith University) The maliwawa image collected ...

Australian-born and Los Angeles-based, Emerald Gruin has cornered a unique market in the contemporary art scene. Her eponymous Gruin Gallery features Australian artists from a diverse array of ...

The bark paintings in Gapu-Monuk Saltwater: Journey to Sea Country at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney were pivotal documents in a major case for indigenous sea rights. These ...