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.

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 ...

In May, scientists and archaeologists from the Australian Museum uncovered a 4,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art site at Eagles Reach, literally on Sydney’s doorstep. Despite the abundance of many ...

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 ...

FOR years, art collectors considered the scribbles of Australian aborigines to be little more than colourful scratchings, and they were prepared to pay only a pittance for them. Today, however, it can ...

Art by more than 30 Indigenous artists from six global regions is currently on view in Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, the first large-scale international exhibition of Indigenous ...

New research details Aboriginal craftsmanship – along with accompanying wall art – at a remote site in the Cape York ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, an influential artist whose work helped popularize aboriginal art and later sold for record prices at auction, has died. Tjupurrula died Feb. 12 in ...

The first-ever sale of Aboriginal art at Sotheby’s London on June 10 was an unexpected success, bringing in over $2 million for 75 lots. The auction was mostly drawn from the collection of Dutch ...