The artwork comes from an Australian culture that dates back more than 65,000 years — more than 2,000 generations that have ...

Admirers of Australia’s Indigenous artists have been pushing for a serious, large-scale presentation of their work at a major U.S. museum for decades. The quality of the work undoubtedly warrants it: ...

Over the past decade, there has been a surge of interest—both institutional and from collectors—in Australian First Nations art. No longer confined to the margins of the market, a select number of ...

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous artists. That 1941 MoMA show was full of ancient Native objects, along with ...

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 ...