The Seattle Art Museum announced it is repatriating an Australian Aboriginal object to Australia. The object, a sacred stone about a meter long with carvings, has been in the Seattle Art Museum ...

Aboriginal erotic rock art proves that ... One section of artwork they have excavated, a stone with patterns drawn in charcoal, has been dated to 28,000 years old ...

A new exhibition celebrating the brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, while confronting the dark heart of ...

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 ...

Tasmanian Aboriginal people are celebrating after news the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has agreed to return sacred Aboriginal rock carvings taken from the state's north-west in the 1960s.

According to dealer D’Lan Davidson, the market for indigenous Australian art experienced a recalibration following policy ...

Ancient Australia not written in stone, Science Online, 19 Jun 2008; Aboriginal site among Australia's oldest; ... Use these social-bookmarking links to share Aboriginal tattoos reflect art, culture.

Tradition dictates that the stone, known as a tjuringa, must only be handled by Aboriginal male elders. And it is also said that Aboriginal women who see it will be struck down and die.

More information: Ana Paula Motta et al, Linear Naturalistic Figures: a new Mid-to-Late Holocene Aboriginal rock art style from the northeast Kimberley, Australia, Australian Archaeology (2025 ...

Interest in Aboriginal art is reflected through auction prices, too. At Sotheby’s sale of Aboriginal art in New York this May, Kngwarreye’s Alhalkere—Old Man Emu with Babies (1989), a ...