The global art world is rapidly becoming aware of this market, but there are some pitfalls to know about if you are looking to buy into it. Installation view of the Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally ...

Aboriginal dot paintings have inspired Australian mathematicians to find a new way of seeing how building foundations fail. The researchers presented two images that visualise the behaviour of ...

“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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a ...

Aboriginal artist Dorri Jones paints a piece of traditional Aboriginal art in the community of Utopia.(Ian Waldie/Getty Images) For Aboriginal people there was never an explicit word for art. Art is a ...

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).

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 ...