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 ...

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 ...

The bark paintings in Gapu-Monuk Saltwater: Journey to Sea Country at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney were pivotal documents in a major case for indigenous sea rights. These ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract painter and teacher Hans Hofmann delivered one of the art world’s more dubious compliments in the 1930s, when he told Lee Krasner, one of his students, that a piece was “so good you would not ...

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, ...