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.

BYU’s Museum of Art hosted an artist panel to commemorate the "Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu" exhibition on Oct. 10.

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.

Deutscher and Hackett is a leading auction house in Australia, with offices in both Sydney and Melbourne. Helmed by two founders who come from a background of gallery work and private dealing, this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971 ...

The Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art began in 2015. The title of the exhibition ...

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 ...

As with Navajo blankets, Japanese Zen ensō paintings, Gee’s Bend quilts and much more, the similarity between Australian aboriginal painting and modern Western abstract art is mostly superficial. All ...