Auctions The First-Ever Auction of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in New York Soars Past Expectations to Bring in $2.8 Million Is there a "Gagosian effect" at play in the new fervor for Aboriginal art?

This indigenous art, of course, had existed in various forms for most of the 40,000 years of Aboriginal life in Australia — it’s the oldest unbroken art tradition in the world.

Throughout Australia, many visual traditions have evolved over thousands of years that use abstract forms or patterns to represent elements of Aboriginal Country and culture. From the 1970s, an ...