Walking into the exhibit on the 4th floor of the Institute of Contemporary Art, you are immediately greeted by a painting by ...

An exhibit of contemporary Aboriginal art opens this month at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University. WEISLOGEL: We were alerted about the exhibition by the collector who assembled the ...

The contemporary Australian Aboriginal painting we see in galleries and museums today is a hybrid art: the result of cultural fusion and economic necessity. It’s also a coded language, a form of ...

The Australian Cultural Fields: National and Transnational Dynamics project discussed in this article was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council (DP140101970).

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 ...

Australian Aboriginal art, ranging from ceremonial works painted with ochre on eucalyptus tree bark in the late 1950s, to huge, contemporary abstracts, will be sold for the first time by Sotheby’s in ...

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 ...

Aboriginal art is far more than just visually stunning patterns — it is one of the oldest continuous forms of cultural expression in the world. Rooted in storytelling, ritual, and identity, Aboriginal ...

On a trip to the Australian outback to see contemporary Aboriginal art, collector May Lam was taken with a painting of a cluster of striped hive-like shapes and small circles in vibrant, almost ...

Knight’s rescue mission salvaged over 100 works, but more than 300 were destroyed. His determination reflects Aboriginal art’s newfound status both in Australia and in the larger art world. Ignored as ...