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Australia -| Aboriginal art in the home of absinthe

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Aboriginal art in the home of absinthe But Môtiers is in fact a cultural capital – albeit Australian culture. La Grange museum is part of the Château d'Ivernois and is filled with aboriginal art. At the moment it is home to "Waii" – an exhibition of the engravings of Dennis Nona, a print ...

Aboriginal art collection sells for more than $2 million in historic Sotheby's London auction

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Aboriginal art collection sells for more than $2 million in historic Sotheby's London auction  - "It was a bit of a risk to put a sale of Aboriginal art outside Australia and I always wondered whether Australian bidders would participate in the sale," ...

Australia -| Dazzling windows into indigenous art

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Dazzling windows into indigenous art : Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art by Pamela McClusky, Wally Caruana, Lisa Graziose Corrin and Stephen Gilchrist (Seattle Art Museum/Yale, $65) was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name and to celebrate the first collection of ... The West Australian

Bungaree, the first Australian: history revisited in Aboriginal art today

Bungaree, the first Australian : history revisited in Aboriginal art today   - Bungaree: the First Australian is a new exhibition pondering an eccentric and compelling figure in Australian history. Bungaree was an Indigenous  ...

Australia -| Dazzling windows into indigenous art

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Dazzling windows into indigenous art : Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art by Pamela McClusky, Wally Caruana, Lisa Graziose Corrin and Stephen Gilchrist (Seattle Art Museum/Yale, $65) was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name and to celebrate the first collection of ... The West Australian

Funding for Aboriginal art groups to preserve culture

Funding for Aboriginal art groups to preserve culture - Nine West Australian Aboriginal Arts Groups have shared in more than $300,000 worth of funding to develop projects supporting sustainability of ...

Researchers Obtain First Reliable Radiocarbon Dates for Australian Aboriginal Rock Art

Researchers Obtain First Reliable Radiocarbon Dates for Australian Aboriginal Rock Art -  Indigenous Australian rock art is very interesting, it is believed to be among the most ancient in the world but it is one of the least dated,” said Dr.

Development of new techniques makes it possible to date Australian Aboriginal rock art

Development of new techniques makes it possible to date Australian Aboriginal rock art - Generally speaking, radiocarbon dating cannot readily be used to date Australian indigenous rock art directly, because it is characterised by the use of ...

Funding for Aboriginal art groups to preserve culture

Funding for Aboriginal art groups to preserve culture - Nine West Australian Aboriginal Arts Groups have shared in more than $300,000 worth of funding to develop projects supporting sustainability of ...

Australia -| More to Aboriginal art than connecting the dots

More to Aboriginal art than connecting the dots ASK AMERICANS what they know about Australian art and their thoughts often turn to dot paintings, ochre colours and of course the ubiquitous kangaroo. But Aboriginal artist Reko Rennie aims to challenge that stereotype when he exhibits his work at a ...

Miami art collectors honored by Australian government for promoting Aboriginal art

Dennis and Debra Scholl received an honor by the Australian government for their work in collecting and promoting Aboriginal art throughout the ... View article...

Art Centre Manager - Tjarlirli Art

Desart is the not-for-profit peak industry body for over forty Central Australian Aboriginal Art Centres and the Tjarlirli Art Board of Directors has ... View article...

Dr Margo Smith awarded Order of Australia for promoting Aboriginal art and culture in the US

Dr Margo Smith awarded Order of Australia for promoting Aboriginal art and culture in the US  - The Australian who runs the only museum in the United States dedicated to Indigenous art was recognised today with an Order of Australia honour.

Australia -| Australia's Most Famous Aboriginal Artists

Australia's Most Famous Aboriginal Artists : With Australian Aboriginal art becoming more famous and more popular by the year, there seems to be a new 'most famous' Aboriginal artist every year.

Virtual sellouts raise prospect Aboriginal art is back

Virtual sellouts raise prospect Aboriginal art is back  - Mossgreen's head of Australian indigenous art, D'lan Davidson, fresh from last week's Melbourne sale of the collection of Canberra academic Alan ...

Government invests $150000 into digital labeling to combat fake Aboriginal art

Government invests $150000 into digital labeling to combat fake Aboriginal art - This week, the Australian Government confirmed that it will commit ... It is the next step in the fight against inauthentic Indigenous art and follows from ...

Aboriginal Art Exhibit Brings New Light to Primitive Australian Paintings

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Aboriginal Art Exhibit Brings New Light to Primitive Australian Paintings  - Roebourne is a sparsely populated and remote region in mining country, with many of the paintings in this collection depicting the dramatic bright red rocks scattered throughout the flat desert. The people of the desert tend to use more of the traditional Aboriginal colors (rust, black, gold and white) as opposed to the brightly colored seashells you see painted by the people of the coast.

Sydney Airport to display major contemporary Aboriginal artwork

Sydney Airport to display major contemporary Aboriginal artwork - Sydney Airport is proud to commission this vibrant artwork – a major installation of well-recognised significance of recent Australian Aboriginal art – to extend Sydney's arts culture to the airport and enhance the passenger experience,” enthused Mather. “We're delighted to be working with artist Archie ...

Art market more gloom than boom

Art market more gloom than boom The next major art sales in Sydney will be Lawson Menzies' quarterly fine art auction and Bonhams' auction of important Australian and Aboriginal art, both in  ...

Australia -| Roby King Galleries shows aboriginal bark art

Roby King Galleries shows aboriginal bark art : Harvey studied at the Adelaide School of Fine Art, and specialized in Australian Aboriginal traditions. For centuries the indigenous Yolngu people of Northwest ...