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| Carpentaria, by Alexis Wright 25 April 2008 - From its opening lines, Carpentaria is never going to be your average novel. Starting before time began, it explains how the land was made: "The ancestral serpent, a creature larger than storm clouds, came down from the stars, laden with its own creativity..." |
| Aboriginal musician astonishes Australian audiences 22 April 2008 - IHT - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu doesn't speak much, but when he takes up his guitar, he sings, literally and figuratively. |
| Yunupingu scores Sir Elton support 18 April 2008 - GEOFFREY Gurrumul Yunupingu's path to stardom will take a giant leap when he supports Elton John at his Darwin concert. |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts board appointments 25 March 2008 - Media Release - The Australia Council for the Arts welcomes Arts Minister Peter Garrett's appointment of Lynette Narkle to its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts board for a three-year term from February 2008. |
| The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Celebrates Its Twentieth Anniversary with the Opening of a New Central London Gallery Space 6 March 2008 - On 18 March 2008 the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery will be twenty years old. The occasion will be marked by an opening-party for the gallery’s magnificent new exhibition space - a three-floor building at 2a Conway Street, just off Fitzroy Square. |
| Guides to help do the right thing with Indigenous culture 28 February 2008 - Media Release - The Australia Council for the Arts has released a fully revised second edition of its protocol guides to help Australians better understand the use of Indigenous cultural material. |
| Lowanna 9 February 2008 - Press Release - Quilliams world and iconography is replete with irreverent metaphor exploring spirituality and sublime nature with a profane point of view. By manipulating the human form with abstract images he seemingly impregnates his photographs with an essence of life and spirituality. |
| Bold vision of artistic rebirth 5 January 2008 - In a dusty corner of the outback, among artworks covered in dirt, Judith Ryan set out on a journey that has transformed the NGV's indigenous collection. |
| A movable cultural centre 10 December 2007 - AFTER listening to artist George Wallaby talk about his traditional country at Lake Gregory, Alan Dodge felt he had understood the Kimberley artist's love of the Great Sandy Desert. "I bought one of his paintings and I can't go to bed without standing and looking at it for a while," he says. |
| Australian art from A to Z 17 November 2007 - An ambitious online dictionary records the lives and works of some 7000 Australian artists. Angela Bennie reports. |
| Aboriginal artist to work with World Youth Day 16 November 2007 - Independent Catholic News UK - Organisers of World Youth Day 2008 (WYD08) have announced that work by the Aboriginal artist Richard Campbell, will be used on a selection of his artwork on official WYD08 merchandise. |
| Gordon Bennett 19 September 2007 - The paintings of Gordon Bennett are loaded with graphic detail, narrative, words, grids, commercial logos, patterns and linear perspectives, all punching at one another in moody arguments. |
| New appetite for Aboriginal art in France 16 September 2007 - PARIS (AFP) — After fetching record prices in Australia, Aboriginal art is carving out a place on the art market in France, spurred by the opening last year of Paris' Quai Branly museum of tribal arts. |
| Art tells forgotten side of stock route history 29 August 2007 - Some of Australia's most senior Aboriginal artists have just completed a journey along the 1,600 kilometre Canning Stock Route to help reinterpret history. |
| Discover Australia's leading contemporary artists 14 August 2007 - A three-week exhibition of over 100 major works of Aboriginal art from Western Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory will be on display from 21 September to 7 October at the Bargehouse Gallery, on London's South Bank. |
| Aboriginal artists are conned into selling works worth thousands for wine and Viagra 18 June 2007 - The independent UK - Greeny Purvis Petyarre is an acclaimed Aboriginal artist whose paintings hang in state galleries and private collections. His work has been exhibited around Australia and in several European countries, including Britain, where it went on show in London last year. Greeny's larger pieces - intricate evocations of desert plants and wildflowers – sell for tens of thousands of dollars. |
| From Cave to Canvas 11 June 2007 - Australian High Commission Media release - Ngarinyin visionaries and artists, Pansy Nulgit and her nephew Matthew Martin, have been selected by their community to launch Mamaa: The Untouchable Ones at the Australian High Commission in London. |
| Nightmare of Aborigine dreamtime artists 19 March 2007 - The Telegraph (UK) - Ngarlie Ellis applies the finishing touches to an intricate dot painting, its yellow and ochre patterns depicting an ancient Dreamtime story of a kangaroo spirit visiting a desert waterhole. |
| The great exhibition about Aboriginal Art & Photography PRESS RELEASE DREAMTIME AUSTRALIA - Berlin 6 March 2007 - Wayne Quilliam Australia’s leading Indigenous photographer will launch one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary Indigenous images at the Art Centre Berlin Friedrichstrassein in Berlin, Germany on March 6 2007. |
| Art ‘factories’ use drink and drugs to lure naive painters 27 February 2007 - timesonline (uk) - An inquiry into Australia’s lucrative Aboriginal art industry has exposed a network of art factories at which painters are forced to churn out pictures in return for drugs, alcohol and scant financial reward. |
| The great exhibition about Aboriginal Art & Photography 22 February 2007 - EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE, LONG JACK PHILLIPUS TJAKAMARRA, PADDY SIMS JAPALJARRI and RONNIE TJAMPITJINPA belong to the who’s who of the Australian indigenous art scene. |
| Native peace symbol marks nation's day 27 January 2007 - A GIANT re-creation of an Aboriginal artwork in a sheep paddock in Western Australia was the visual highlight of yesterday's Australia Day celebrations. |
| Dutch royals launch Aboriginal art collection 28 October 2006 - THE heir to the Dutch throne has launched an Aboriginal art portfolio to honour the indigenous Australians who had first contact with Dutch explorers 400 years ago. |
| Indigenous artists light up Paris 29 July 2006 - Walk in the vicinity of the Eiffel Tower at any hour of the day or night and you'll find it hard to miss the work of Brisbane artist Judy Watson. |
| Little King Johnny removed 14 July 2006 -A sculpture by Western Australian Aboriginal artist, Brian McKinnon, who is now based in Victoria, has been deemed inappropriate by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in Victoria, because it's text is too political? |
| Musee du Quai Branly to Open in Paris June 23 15 June 2006 - PARIS, FRANCE.- On June 23, French President Jacques Chirac will inaugurate a new museum. The Musee du Quai Branly was designed by Jean Nouvel, the architect of the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Cartier Foundation in Paris, the building, in warm colors and partly covered with wood, will look like a long footbridge set in the midst of trees. Hidden from view by dense vegetation and protected from the traffic by a silk-screened glass wall, it will reveal itself gradually to visitors who come to discover it. |
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indigenous art will grace the centre of paris 16 June 2006 - Walk in the vicinity of the Eiffel Tower at any hour of the day or night from next week and you'll find it hard to miss the work of Brisbane artist Judy Watson. |
| Inauguration of the Quai Branly Museum June 2007 - UNESCO will be associated with the events organized on the occasion of the opening of Musée du Quai Branly, Paris's new museum devoted to arts and civilizations from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. |
| Art too political for politicians 7 July 2006 - AN indigenous artist whose work was removed from an exhibition at Victoria's Parliament House because it was deemed overtly political is yet to receive an official explanation or apology. |
| Paris infused with indigenous spirit 20 June 2006 - The building is a chaos of hammering and workmen lugging tools. On the second floor is a travelling forest of cameras, sound booms and 50 or so jostling reporters. In the midst of the dust and din, a small Aboriginal woman is trying to talk about the stars. |
| Australian art demonstrates strength of aboriginal culture 1 June 2006 - Doctor John Stanton assembles the 'Dreaming the Dreaming' exhibition at Salisbury Museum. |
| Paris to showcase Indigenous art 30 June 2006 - Paris is set to introduce millions of people to the wonders of Australian Indigenous art. |
| Dennis Nona exhibits work in Paris 5 May 2006 - Eminent Torres Strait artist Dennis Nona is conducting an exhibition at the Australian Embassy in Paris until June 8. |
| Rivalling the dots 17 January 2005 - Exciting changes in art are sweeping the Anangu-Pitjantjatjara lands. It is as if the traditional Aboriginal country of South Australia's Far North West has had its arts blinkers removed. |
| Aboriginal originals woo French 20 December 2004 - The prominent French social anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss, is quoted approvingly in a 1962 book for his general rule: "One cannot modify societies based on so rigid a social system without destroying them." The French painter Karel Kupka was the man going all the way with Levi-Strauss. In Dawn of Art, Kupka's flawed but remarkably early appreciation of Australian Aboriginal art, he theorised that 1962 was its absolute apogee, "a golden age for the Aboriginal plastic arts, conserved in a miraculous state of purity, even though their disappearance is inexorably growing near". |
| Indigenous roots with a touch of the blues 3 December 2004 - In sharp suits, mirrored shades and inky black hats, they might have been a couple of old blues artists. But touring the Art Gallery of NSW yesterday, Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford and his friend and relative Rammy Ramsey were in town to see the future of Australian contemporary indigenous art in Paris. |
| Haute Outback 16 October 2004 - The art of Australia's Aborigines is garnering awards, selling for six figures at Sotheby's auctions and drawing travellers to city galleries and dusty villages in search of rising talent. Not bad for paintings recently dismissed as 'folk art.' LASZLO BUHASZ explores the appeal of this bold and intricate work, and offers a guide on where to start hunting |
| Sold on the dream of a better deal 20 August 2004 - The Aboriginal art market is a paradox of profit and poverty. |
| Art unites a land divided 23 June 2004 - Think of an Aboriginal artwork, and chances are you are picturing a dot painting of an outback tribal scene, rendered in traditional ochres. |
Retrieving a stolen legacy |
| The whole world in our hands 24 July 2004 - Controversy over ownership of its treasures obscures the British Museum's purpose. By offering everyone insights into cultural history, argues its director Neil MacGregor, the museum promotes a greater understanding of humanity |
| Aboriginal tribe seizes museum artifacts 26 July 2004 - MELBOURNE, (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Australia's Dja Dja Wurrung tribe has seized 150-year-old aboriginal artifacts on loan to a Melbourne museum from Britain, |
| Indigenous art 'better understood in Europe' 28 May 2004 - It comes as a surprise to learn that Marc Despallieres, a passionate advocate and collector of Aboriginal art and craft, is a futures trader by profession. |
| Rising dollar threatens to end boom in Aboriginal art 1 February 2004 - The booming international market for Aboriginal art is set for a slump this year as a result of the high-flying Australian dollar. |
| Aboriginal art auction record 30 July 2003 - Foreign buyers have ensured that Sotheby's annual auction of Aboriginal art will be a record one. |
| Beware of Australians bearing gifts 28 June 2003 - The Greeks sent us a model of a horse-drawn chariot, an ancient discus and, beamed over in virtual reality, a priceless statue of the god Zeus. |
| Aboriginal art — Selling out Aboriginal culture: yesterday, and today? European settlers and conquerors of the Australian continent tried to "assimilate" the Indigenous people of Australia to their own way of life and extinguish their culture. Almost miraculously, Aboriginal people have succeeded in maintaining their own identity and extensive parts of their ancient traditions, which now inspire new forms of cultural expression that others can enjoy. |
| Aboriginal culture to get greater protection 19 May 2003 - Aboriginal communities will be given extensive new rights over the artworks and stories of their members in legislation to be announced today by Communications Minister Richard Alston. |
| From the outside looking in 5 April 2003 - As with her key dreaming subject, the mountain devil lizard - a tiny reptile that changes its skin colours in the shifting desert environment |
| Aboriginal art to invade Paris 15 May 2003 - PARISIANS are bracing for a cultural invasion, with Aboriginal art to cover the ceilings of a new museum in the French capital planned as the legacy of President Jacques Chirac. |
| In Australia, Modern Aboriginal Art is a Hot Commodity 23 April 2003 - Australia's Aborigines may have created one of the wor ld's oldest art forms and have certainly created one of the newest. Travelers in the remote outback of central and northwestern Australia can see cave paintings and rock carvings that date back at least 30,000 years. Then they can drive back to the big coastal cities and buy paintings by direct descendants of those ancient artists, who use modern paints and canvases but still refer to symbols and images that may predate the oldest cave paintings in Europe. |
| Athens to see Aboriginal art 3 April 2004 - An Aboriginal art collection would be shown in Athens to mark the 2004 Olympic Games, the NSW government said today. |
| We must be careful to preserve the value of Australia's Indigenous art 13 December 2002 - Earlier this month, the Australia Council for the Arts (OzCo) announced a series of protocols for dealing with Indigenous cultures. Developed to guide non-Indigenous artists and the wider community in how to interact respectfully with Australian Aboriginal identities, imagery and ancestral myths, the Oz Co's Indigenous Protocols are a major step towards protecting the status of native Australian's cultural heritage. |
| The Aboriginal Arts 'fake' controversy 29 July 2000 - For audiences around the world, earthy dot paintings from Papunya in the western desert represent everything that is awe inspiring about Australian Aboriginal art. |
| The Case of Isabelle 2002 - The case of a German school teacher and would-be artist called Isabelle Isabelle who believes that her “artistic freedom” entitles her to paint pale imitations of Aboriginal art and sell them on Ebay is not important in itself. But the issues it raises go to the heart of the misunderstandings that prevail, especially in Europe, about Australian Aboriginal art. The appeal to “artistic freedom” may strike a sympathetic chord for those raised in the traditions of European art. Isabelle is certainly not alone in her fascination with Aboriginal art, nor in her assumption that she has the right to copy the art of other cultures, irrespective of whether they subscribe to the appropriationist appetites of the West. |
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