Fremantle Arts Centre’s current exhibition We Don’t Need A Map is an artistic journey into a unique part of Australia, giving local desert people the chance to tell their stories.
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ABORIGINAL ART
Art, fashion and copyright: from Papunya to US catwalks
A spat has flared over small US-based fashion house Rodarte unveiling its autumn collection that featured, in some small part, several images and motifs drawn from Australian Aboriginal art.
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The great Aboriginal art heist
An informant at the National Gallery of Australia tells me that there has been a great art heist from the Prime Ministerial Lodge in Canberra.
READ MORECouncil bans Aboriginal street artists — racist or just dumb?
The Alice Springs Town Council is enforcing a local by-law banning Aboriginal street artists from selling their art in downtown Alice. Is it racist or just a stupid move?
READ MOREWhere to buy fake ‘authentic’ Aboriginal art
How much of what is sold as Aboriginal art in Australia is authentic and genuine and how much is fake? asks Bob Gosford from Alice Springs.
READ MORESome of the finest Australian Indigenous art in existence
Art historian Henry F. Skerritt reviews for Crikey Ancestral Power and the Aesthetic: the first ever exhibition of barks paintings from the Donald Thomson Collection.
READ MOREBrandis indulges in some last minute arts porking
The Federal Government went into caretaker mode around midday yesterday but not before some last minute micro-pork barreling, writes Glenn Dyer.
READ MORERetrenched factory fodder and public servants better off than CDEP rejects
Three contrasting circumstances sum up why it’s much harder to survive in the workforce if you are Aboriginal these days. Sacked factory workers, Aboriginal workers and public servants fare quite differently in the brave new world of the federal intervention.
READ MOREAboriginal art popular at home and abroad
Sales of Aboriginal art generated a mere $666,000 in 1988 but last year turnover hit a new record of $14.3 million and this will be exceeded again this year, writes Geoff Maslen.
READ MORENational Gallery of Australia snares the Possum
The National Gallery of Australia last night paid $2.4 million for Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s huge painting Warlugulong at a Sotheby’s auction in Melbourne, writes Geoff Maslen.
READ MOREThe politics of culturally significant art work
Sotheby’s Aboriginal art specialist, Tim Klingender, has been protesting for years at the impact the Protection of Moveable Cultural Heritage Act has on the sale of important Aboriginal art, writes Geoff Maslen.
READ MOREClifford Possum’s masterpiece can’t leave the country
The federal government will inform Sotheby’s today that its prize Aboriginal painting to go up for auction tonight will not be given an export permit under Australia’s Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act .
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