As with Navajo blankets, Japanese Zen ensō paintings, Gee’s Bend quilts and much more, the similarity between Australian aboriginal painting and modern Western abstract art is mostly superficial. All ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) When art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked“why have there been no great women artists?” in 1971, her point wasn't that women lacked talent. It was that the art world ...

I explored Australia’s indigenous art legacy on a trip to the Northern Territory - As the Tate Modern stages a major ...

“Australia is the center of our life ” says Painter Sidney Nolan. “The sky there seems ten times higher than it is any where else, and the ants in the dry grass glitter as if they were under a ...

Almost exactly a year ago, walking through the Seattle Art Museum with my uncle, I stopped cold in front of a piece of art called “Munurru,” or “Rough,” by Aboriginal Australian artist Galuma Maymuru.

Ted Snell is the Chair of University of Western Australian Publishing which published the recent monograph Guy Grey-Smith LIfe Force published in 2013. The current exhibition Guy Grey-Smith: Art as ...