At the turn of the century, Australian women artists travelled to Europe and returned with new styles and techniques. Their ...

As part of the World of Art series, my book was necessarily concise, conceived as an accessible introduction to the subject. My intention was to propose a way of reading the history of Australian art, ...

BYU’s Museum of Art hosted an artist panel to commemorate the "Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu" exhibition on Oct. 10.

In the late 1970s, when I was a fine arts student, the Melbourne University Gallery was just one room in a neo-gothic quadrangle. It wasn’t until the mid 1990s that the university commissioned Nonda ...

Lisa French does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Joanna Mendelssohn received funding from the Australian Research Council in 2013 to research a project that resulted in Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes (Thames & Hudson, 2018), along with ...

It had taken an iconoclastic German anthropologist, Leo Frobenius, to recognise the importance of the paintings in the state’s almost impenetrable Kimberley region and bring them south. His eponymous ...

Over the past decade, there has been a surge of interest—both institutional and from collectors—in Australian First Nations art. No longer confined to the margins of the market, a select number of ...

The Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art began in 2015. The title of the exhibition ...

From rabbits in hats to women being sawn in half, magic has captivated the imaginations of generations of Australians. Thanks to one "certified fanboy", we have that history at our fingertips.

In a flat, arid stretch of southern Australia, the Koonalda Cave is home to art that dates back 22,000 years – a sacred site for the indigenous Mirning People and a discovery that transformed ...