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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Despite the million-dollar auction price for works by Aboriginal Australian artists in 2007, the controversy about whether or not Australian Aboriginal art should be included in the ...

“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 ...

Australian Ambassador to the United States Arthur Sinodinos AO honored Miami arts leaders Dennis and Debra Scholl as Members of the Order of Austrailia for their efforts to collect, donate and promote ...

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 ...

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 ...

Installation view of The Lume Indianapolis featuring Connection: Land, Water, Sky—Art & Music from Indigenous Australians in the IMA Galleries, May 9, 2025–February 2026. Visitors can expect to see ...

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 ...

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, ...

Australia’s Aboriginal art is one of the world’s oldest continuous art traditions, stretching back over 60,000 years. For many collectors, both in Australia and internationally, Aboriginal art offers ...