As with Navajo blankets, Japanese Zen ensō paintings, Gee’s Bend quilts and much more, the similarity between Australian aboriginal painting and modern Western abstract art is mostly superficial. All ...

What mechanisms separate the art pantheon of Australia from the also-rans? AAP Image/Sergio Dionisio There are about 30,000 professional practicing visual artists in Australia today (see note). By ...

The show provided a rare chance to study and appreciate work by this significant Australian artist. Perceval, who died of a stroke last October at the age of 77, was the last surviving member of the ...

Torbay (1957) is on display at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in the first major retrospective of the neglected artist for 35 years. © Susanna Grey-Smith and ...

“Australia is the center of our life ” says Painter Sidney Nolan. “The sky there seems ten times higher than it is any where else, and the ants in the dry grass glitter as if they were under a ...

When art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked “why have there been no great women artists?” in 1971, her point wasn’t that women lacked talent. It was that the art world had systematically excluded ...

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 ...

Some say Damien Hirst’s latest “Veil Paintings” are strikingly similar to works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye and other female Aboriginal artists. Left, Damien Hirst, Veil of Love’s Secrets (2017).

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.

“Desert Painters of Australia Part II,” at Gagosian. The forced displacement and resettlement of Australia’s indigenous communities in the 20th century resulted in a shift in the ways in which those ...