In 1972, with assistance from an art teacher, 11 men formed a cooperative called Papunya Tula Artists. By 1974 the group had grown to 40. Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson An art movement’s ...

The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection opened virtually on July 11 at Frost Art FIU. On view until January 10, 2021, the ...

Just five months after Gagosian Gallery held a groundbreaking exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian painting, the auction houses are following suit. On Friday, Sotheby’s held the first New ...

"Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art" from the Kaplan & Levi Collection features contemporary painting and sculpture by Australian Aboriginal artists. Curated by Pamela McClusky, Curator of ...

On a trip to the Australian outback to see contemporary Aboriginal art, collector May Lam was taken with a painting of a cluster of striped hive-like shapes and small circles in vibrant, almost ...

Australian-born and Los Angeles-based, Emerald Gruin has cornered a unique market in the contemporary art scene. Her eponymous Gruin Gallery features Australian artists from a diverse array of ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a ...

The groundbreaking Papunya Tula, Genesis and Genius exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales was the first major retrospective by artists from Papunya in Australia’s Western Desert. Consisting ...

Aboriginal artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi wears the art of her ancestors on her skin. The dots and dashes painted on her face are repeated on her patterned canvases in modern versions of ancient ...

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, one of the acknowledged pioneers of the contemporary Australian Aboriginal art movement which emerged at Papunya settlement in central Australia in the early 1970s, died ...

Like “No Boundaries, ” a 2015 show at the Pérez Art Museum Miami featuring works by nine male tribal elders, the artworks here are drawn from the collection of Dennis and Debra Scholl, who have ...