The Aboriginal art of northeast Arnhem Land in Australia is both ancient and recent. For thousands of years, the Yolngu people of this remote, culturally rich region have been painting in the sand ...

Aboriginal Rock Art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station (photo by Graeme Churchard, CC BY-SA 2.0) Because Aboriginal Australians are traditionally nomadic people – having relied on songlines ...

Klingender founded the Sotheby’s Aboriginal art department in 1996 and began touring highlights of its sales internationally to New York, London and Paris prior to auctions in Australia.

But unlike other Aboriginal rock art depicting vessels that came from the Moluccas, including Macassan prahus (sailing boats that originated in Indonesia), these drawings have warlike features and ...

Installation view of The Lume Indianapolis featuring Connection: Land, Water, Sky—Art & Music from Indigenous Australians in the IMA Galleries, May 9, 2025–February 2026. Visitors can expect to see ...

Yasufumi Nakamori On Aboriginal Art Coming to the Asia Society Museum "New York City remains one of the centers of modern culture, and we need to present 'Maḏayin' as a critical part of the ...

Little has changed in the office of the Aboriginal art dealer Tim Klingender since his death in a boating accident near the heads of Sydney Harbour two years ago, aged 59.

Aboriginal art is an oral language. A lot of stories passed down from generation to generation are told orally or drawn on cave walls and on bodies. It’s the oldest artistic culture in the world.