May, 2009
Sacred secrets in Aboriginal art at the Fowler
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
The Fowler exhibit, "Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya," features 49 paintings and focuses largely on the early years of Western Desert Painting's development. A companion exhibit, "Innovations in Western Desert Painting, 1972-1999," gives museum-goers a chance...» Read More
Pushing boundaries
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
Just read the book! You can understand Cees Nooteboom's frustration. He writes a potentially controversial book about a young Brazilian woman having mystically awakening sex with an almost speechless Aboriginal artist, and the response in Australia is silence. "I'm curious,"...» Read More
Warwick Thornton discusses Samson and Delilah with the WSWS
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
Samson and Delilah writer, director and cinematographer Warwick Thornton spoke with the World Socialist Web Site this month when his film screened at the Message Sticks film festival in Sydney. Thornton, who was born and raised in Alice Springs, Central...» Read More
Painting of child actor is Archibald People's Choice
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
VINCENT FANTAUZZO won the Archibald People's Choice Prize for the second consecutive time today, with a portrait of the young Aboriginal actor Brandon Walters. Walters became a star overnight when he appeared in Baz Luhrmann's film, Australia, but at the...» Read More
Desart welcomes $10m industry funding
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
The head of Desart in central Australia says the Federal Government has got its priorities right in granting extra money to the Aboriginal art industry. A $10 million package for Aboriginal art was announced in this week's Federal Budget. The...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Shines in Charlottesville
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
The surprising Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is part of the University of Virginia (which was designed by Thomas Jefferson). The small museum opened in 1997 through a gift by businessman John W. Kluge, who began collecting Aboriginal art in the...» Read More
Samson and Delilah
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
Some might say it is a simple love story, but delve deeper and you will find one of the richest narratives told in Australian cinema. In an isolated community in the central desert of Australia, Delilah (Marissa Gibson) spends the...» Read More
Interview with Warwick Thornton, writer/director of Samson & Delilah
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
Interview with Warwick Thornton, writer/director of Samson & Delilah: Few first-time feature filmmakers are greeted with the kind of accolades bestowed upon Australian director Warwick Thornton, whose triumphant Cannes-selected indigenous drama Samson & Delilah has prompted a gushing response from...» Read More
Venice Reflux: Doctorin' The Tardis
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
All that is missing from Gladwell's imagery is a large monolith and some token Aboriginals with a spear and shield. Vernon Ah Kee rises from the pages of The Australian to create an interesting debate with his 'Commissioner': "The problem...» Read More
Introducing the Australian Art Market Blog - australianartmarket.com
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
As a Sydney, Australia based art market analyst and art consultant I am sure you would not be surprised to hear that I have a particular interest in Australian art and the Australian art market. Having spent the last couple...» Read More
Minister lashes the 'culture vultures' of Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
Responding to growing disquiet in central Australia, where Aboriginal artists are angry that secret cultural material contained in paintings is being exhibited internationally, NT Arts and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Alison Anderson has intervened to overturn government policy of researching and...» Read More
Susan Lowish - Treasuring Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
Host/Speaker Susan Lowish, Ph.D. Sponsored by Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Type Speakers - Arts/Performing Arts Location Kluge-Ruhe Date and Time Friday May 15, 2009 7:00 PM (EST) Description Susan Lowish, Lecturer in Australian art history, University of Melbourne, will discuss...» Read More
Mike Anderson new director of AAMU
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.05.09
As of 1 June Mike Anderson, presently Cultural Governance programme leader at Kunst & Zaken, will be director of the AAMU Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art in Utrecht. He will succeed Ms Daniëlle van den Broek, who was director of...» Read More
GLORIA GOES TO PARIS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 15.05.09
Celebrated Utopia artist, Gloria Petyarr has become the first Australian artist commissioned by Hermes, the swanky international fashion house based in Paris. Gloria's Leaf design was selected by Hermes for their 2009 collection, and has just been released internationally. The...» Read More
WA ART PRIZE NOMINEES NAMED
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 12.05.09
Fifteen Indigenous artists and one artists collective are nominated for Australia's richest art prizes. They are: Tony Albert (born 1981 Townsville QLD, lives Brisbane QLD) Lorraine Connelly-Northey (born 1962 Swan Hill VIC, lives Swan Hill VIC) Timothy Cook...» Read More
Interview with Leon Paroissien and Bernice Murphy
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.05.09
Interview with Leon Paroissien and Bernice Murphy This is an excerpt from the interview which looks at Aboriginal art only. The full interview can be found at the url below. The interview was made in 2006. In the Perspecta exhibition...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Exhibit Opens at the Fowler
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.05.09
In 1971 in the tiny settlement of Papunya, a group of Australian Aboriginal men began transferring their sacred ceremonial designs onto pieces of masonite board. Since this crucial transformative period, Australian Aboriginal art has become an international phenomenon, widely exhibited...» Read More
