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Emily Kam Kngwarray painting at Delmore Downs Station about 1992.

Britain celebrates Emily, after hidden letter reveals it turned down Indigenous art

A long-hidden letter reveals how Britain once dismissed the idea of showing the work of one of Australia’s most celebrated artists.

  • David Crowe

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More than a million petroglyphs are scattered around Murujuga National Park, which overlooks Woodside’s Karratha operations.

Archaeologists to talk rock art harm at world congress

The event comes just weeks after the federal government gave Woodside’s North West Shelf project the green light to keep operating until 2070.

  • Lloyd Jones
Mulka Project’s ‘Rarrirarri’ 2023, made of fibreglass, plaster and projections;

‘Like nothing you have seen before’: Meet the artists entrancing New York

The birthplace of Yothu Yindi and King Stingray is home to an extraordinary school of artists whose work is sought after by the likes of The Met in New York.

  • Linda Morris

Major wing of New York’s famed Met reopens with work by First Nations artists

In a time of swings and roundabouts for Aboriginal Australian art in New York, two new works take a prominent position in the reimagined Michael C. Rockefeller wing.

  • Michael Koziol

In one awful decision, Albanese has revealed his do-nothing plan

If you want to govern effectively, you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to do that.

  • Ross Gittins
Friends Darrell Sibosado, Goolarrgon Bard man and artist, and Frances Rings, choreographer and artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, in Lombadina, Sibosado’s Dampier Peninsula home.

‘Transformative’: How a remote WA town, population 20, inspired Bangarra’s new show

The Kimberley community of Lombadina may be tiny, but its story of survival convinced Bangarra Dance Theatre to bring it to the world.

  • Jane Albert
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Stacey Edwards

These artists first picked up a brush in prison. It changed their lives

Connecting with their culture through art while in prison has proven revolutionary for hundreds of Indigenous people.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Curator Marika Duczynski and the four spears taken by Cook in 1770 have gone on public display at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.

‘Like time travellers’: Priceless spears taken by Cook have come home

These weapons were used to resist the crew of the Endeavour. Until recently, they were stored in a museum basement in England.

  • Linda Morris
Rosanna Raymond of the Pacific Sisters.

The Pacific Sisters want you to don your Melbourne Cup best, then add nan’s lace and some bling

This Aotearoa-based arts collective has been blending ancestral Pasifika power with fashion, music, performance and fun for over 30 years.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Indigenous artist Mick Harding, in front of his video installation for ACMI, with his son Mitch who worked on the piece with him.

Welcome to ACMI: New work encourages visitors to think about country

A local Indigenous artist has created a stunning animation which will greet visitors to ACMI at Fed Square.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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