First, Larry Gagosian filled his Madison Avenue premises with work by Australia’s Aboriginal desert painters. Then, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a new gallery dedicated to contemporary ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A vivid Aboriginal painting recounting Australian indigenous creation myth has set a new world record mark for an Aboriginal artwork, topping A$1 million ($819,000) for the first ...

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 ...

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.

Fiona Foley, "HHH" (2004). Courtesy of artist/Niagara Galleries. (via MoCADA.org) I just started reading Toure’s Post Blackness: What It means to be Black Now, which features a number of black artists ...

“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 ...

With each paint stroke and dot placement, art gives John the opportunity to express his culture, with some of his fellow ...

ALICE SPRINGS, Australia, July 16 (Reuters) - Aboriginal art in Australia is booming and improving the lives of poor black communities, but unscrupulous dealers are ripping off artists and fraud from ...

Thousands of years ago, in what’s now the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Aboriginal artists created elaborate rock paintings. Much of the artwork still exists today. “If you’re walking beside ...

Abstract painter and teacher Hans Hofmann delivered one of the art world’s more dubious compliments in the 1930s, when he told Lee Krasner, one of his students, that a piece was “so good you would not ...

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, ...