Gamilaroi/Wiradjuri man Allan McKenzie paints caskets His father taught him art skills in the regional NSW town of Griffith Mr McKenzie encourages other artists to paint caskets But for ...

‘MADAYIN: EIGHT DECADES of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting From Yirrkala” presents artworks that are largely unknown in the U.S. While recent decades have cast light on the “dot paintings” made by ...

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.

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Australia’s Aboriginal art is one of the world’s oldest continuous art traditions, stretching back over 60,000 years. For many collectors, both in Australia and internationally, Aboriginal art offers ...

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 ...

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 ...