William Barak’s missing art: Wurundjeri Elders lead the search to reclaim lost cultural treasures

Barak was an Aboriginal leader who witnessed the signing of the controversial 1835 Batman Treaty. He made many works during ...
The New York Times

A Ravishing Show of Aboriginal Art, Some in the U.S. for the First Time

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 ...
NOLA.com

Infinite Possibility: Australian Aboriginal women's art reaches across the miles

Australia — and in particular the vast expanses of desert Australia, far from the cosmopolitan coasts — seems about as far away from New Orleans, literally and figuratively, as you can possibly get.
Artnet

British Museum’s Controversial Australian Aboriginal Show Draws Fire

The British Museum’s highly contentious exhibition on Aboriginal Australian art, which opened yesterday was panned by critics, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Curated by the Aboriginal Australian ...
The Conversation

Perth already has a museum of Indigenous art and culture. With proper funding, it could be our national centre

Vanessa Russ is a former Associate Director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology and is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at UWA. Jason M. Gibson has received research funding from the Australian ...
Artnet

Vandals Destroy One of the Last Ancient Aboriginal Hand Stencils in Tasmania

Unknown vandals recently scratched out two ancient Aboriginal hand stencils at Nirmena Nala rock shelter in Tasmania, in the upper region of the Derwent valley. The damage, which almost completely ...