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God Save the Queen, and Stephen Page
I heard from Apolline Kohen this week that Kuninjku artist John Mawurndjul was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) on the 2010 Queen’s Birthday for his service to the preservation of Indigenous culture. Apolline reports that Mawurndjul is “thrilled” by the … Continue reading
John Mawurndjul and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
This year will mark the fifth anniversary of the opening of the exhibition <<rarrk>> John Mawurndjul Journey Through Time in Northern Australia at the Tinguely Museum in Basel, Switzerland. It was a startling event at the time, as I recall: an internationally oriented retrospective of … Continue reading
John Mawurndjul, Past and Present
It has been little more than a dozen years since the name of John Mawurndjul was linked for the first time (to my knowledge) to what were and perhaps remain the most famous names world-wide in Aboriginal art, Emily Kam … Continue reading
Modern Masters
I’m busy this weekend preparing a slide show and lecture on Aboriginal art for an honors class in art history at the local high school this coming Monday morning: will wonders never cease? While doing some image-surfing, I came across … Continue reading
Maningrida’s Year
If someday art historians look back to assess the Aborginal art scene in 2006 I think there will be two salient themes in their analysis. The first will be that there had never before been such extensive coverage of Aboriginal … Continue reading
Nicolas Rothwell on Mawurndjul in Europe
Today’s Australian (January 19) has an article by Nicolas Rothwell entitled “How the West was won over,” on the reaction in Europe to John Mawurndjul’s retrospective at the Museum Tinguely in Basel (and now at Sprengel in Hannover). Thanks to Glenn for … Continue reading
