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 ...

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.

While the world might be shrinking in its engagement with the United States, it seems that America is still deeply interested ...

Imagine you're in southeast Cape York Peninsula, heading north from the tiny town of Laura—population 133. You're in a dusty ...

This Saturday Soapbox is regarding the recent article in the Yakima Herald-Republic, “Musician Blake Noble’s passion for Aboriginal people shows in his art”. Making art, using recipes, and singing ...

When a flash flood sent a five-foot wave sweeping through the Mitchelton Gallery of Aboriginal Art last fall, curator Adam Knight helicoptered in to rescue what he could. The subterranean gallery—part ...

Marlene Rubjunta’s love affair with soft sculpture – the art of shaping soft materials like cloth and rubber – was slow to ignite. When the Australian Indigenous artist first walked into a community ...

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 ...

The contemporary Australian Aboriginal painting we see in galleries and museums today is a hybrid art: the result of cultural fusion and economic necessity. It’s also a coded language, a form of ...

The Australian Cultural Fields: National and Transnational Dynamics project discussed in this article was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council (DP140101970).

Researchers say the discovery is rare. Organic materials like string, often made from plant and animal products, typically do ...