Aboriginal art holds a deep cultural significance, rich history, and a unique aesthetic that has captivated art lovers around the world. Whether you’re new to this artistic tradition or already ...

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 communities, which historically had no written language, used dots as a visual storytelling method which convey sacred ancestral beings, the relationship between people and the land, and ...

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 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 ...

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).

In 1972, with assistance from an art teacher, 11 men formed a cooperative called Papunya Tula Artists. By 1974 the group had grown to 40. Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson An art movement’s ...