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: ...

Joanna Mendelssohn received funding from the Australian Research Council in 2013 to research a project that resulted in Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes (Thames & Hudson, 2018), along with ...

Amid growing recognition of Indigenous art in the contemporary art world, a new partnership is set to elevate the global presence of Indigenous works. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., ...

When the invitation for artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale was rescinded, the statement from Creative Australia’s board said their ...

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 ...

History represents memory, and therefore inconvenient reminders about past standards of quality as well as the fact art once played a vital role in the formation of culture; today it tends to be ...

What if the rock art drawings of strange animals really existed? Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have ...

It begins with an image of innocence. Posed against a blank wall, his eyes bright, his palette glistening, the protagonist of Violet Teague’s The Boy with the Palette, 1911, is the same age as his ...

Archaeologists exploring the waters near Western Australia’s Murujuga are finding ancient sites a short dive below the sea’s surface Clare Watson, Hakai Magazine Archaeologists exploring the submerged ...