Clifford Possum, 70, one of the first Australian aboriginal artists to gain an international following, died June 21 in Alice Springs, Australia. The cause of death was not announced by his family.

Australia’s Aboriginal artists have a complex worldview based on genesis myths describing the Ngarrangarni, or Dreamtime, during which totemic ancestors traveled the nascent landscape ...

The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, which includes more than 3,600 artworks, is the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to the exhibition and study of Indigenous Australian art. Edward ...

This fall, the Menil Collection in Houston will present more than 100 contemporary paintings from the 1950s onwards by Aboriginal Australian artists in “Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed ...

The Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray spent her entire life in the remote Utopia region of Central Australia, and when she started painting in the late 1980s, in her 70s, women in her ...

Australian Indigenous Artist Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa at work painting. Photo: Marianna Massey/Corbis via Getty Images. Dan F. Stapleton May 23, 2022 Share This Article ...

Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia WHEN: Through Dec. 30 WHERE: Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University INFO: (504) 865-5328; newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu Free ...

Aboriginal artists from Australia's Tiwi Islands, whose works will show at Hong Kong's Art Basel, offer a window into their culture Artist Pedro Wonaeamirri grabs a chunk of chalky ochre from a ...

Australian Aboriginal artists whose paintings sell for millions of dollars internationally but who often struggle for money will get a lifeline through a royalty charge imposed on Friday on their ...

Australian Aboriginal art, ranging from ceremonial works painted with ochre on eucalyptus tree bark in the late 1950s, to huge, contemporary abstracts, will be sold for the first time by Sotheby ...