Art
Traveling Show of Aboriginal Bark Paintings Arrives in New York City
Concluding its nationwide tour at the Asia Society, Maḏayin gathers intricate eucalyptus bark works by artists from the Indigenous community of Yirrkala.
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Vandals Destroy 30,000-Year-Old Indigenous Rock Art in Australia
The drawings, which experts say are irrecoverable, are of particular significance to the Mirning People.
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Bark Paintings That Were Pivotal Documents in an Aboriginal Sea Rights Case Go on View
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.
Art
Aboriginal Women Artists and Their Visions of Infinity
These paintings, filled with traditional abstract Aboriginal iconography denoting nature, spirits, and a way of life that has been passed down for generations, are a wonder.
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An Interactive Story That Prompts You to Speak an Endangered Aboriginal Language
Only three fluent speakers of Marra remain. 'My Grandmother's Lingo' is an interactive animation that asks users to speak words from this endangered Aboriginal language.
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Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
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 school wall in cheap, bright acrylics.
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Gathering Gossip and Parsing Truth at the Istanbul Biennial
ISTANBUL — “Gossip,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “trifling or groundless rumour.” I actually like to think of it as knowledge, but the kind that’s not considered true or rational — at least not yet anyway.
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British Museum's Display of Aboriginal Artifacts Prompts New Demands for Their Return
There are only a handful of bark art examples from the Dja Dja Wurrung in Australia, and they're leagues away from their place of origin. A new exhibition of indigenous art of Australia at the British Museum, which holds these artifacts in their collections, will finally bring them back to the South
In Brief
Prehistoric Australian Rock Art in Danger of Serious Deterioration
Australia's Aboriginal cave art is at risk of disappearance within 50 years, according to an expert quoted in the Guardian's recent investigation of the the threats facing the prehistoric art.
Art
Digital Repatriation Through an Aboriginal Art Archive
Artifacts in museums — in an effort for preservation — are often placed out of reach of the communities with which they are entwined. One way museums are bridging this divide is digitization, and with this purpose in mind, the South Australian Museum is currently undertaking a massive project to pho
Opinion
Is Australian Aboriginal Art Part of the African Diaspora?
Recently, I received a press release from the Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) heralding their new show, Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art. My first reaction was astonishment. I didn't understand how Australian Aboriginal