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Margo Smith, AM
Dr. Margo Smith, Director of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia has been awarded the Order of Australia for her work promoting Aboriginal art and culture in the United States of America. Wow! The first thing … Continue reading
“Circles in the Sand” at the Australian Embassy, Washington, DC
Last weekend I was in Washington DC for the annual conference of the American Library Association. The city was crowded, the weather sub-tropical, but I managed to escape for a while to the deserts of Centralia by visiting the Australian … Continue reading
Curating at the Kluge-Ruhe
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia, comprising over 1,700 paintings, sculptures, and artifacts from Aboriginal Australia, is undertaking a significant new conservation effort. Given that many of the items in the collection were acquired by Ed Ruhe in … Continue reading
Mr Kluge’s Gift
(Updated with new photos, June 5) John and Tussi Kluge This past weekend we returned once more to the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection in Charlottesville, Virginia for the inaugural reception for the Mara Tjuta Circle, honoring donors, friends and supporters … Continue reading
Indigenous Protocols: Kim Christen at the Kluge-Ruhe
Kim Christen was at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection this weekend, delivering two lectures within five hours on her experiences building a digital archive of cultural and historical material with the Warumungu people of Tennant Creek. Christen, an anthropologist and assistant professor at … Continue reading
Virtuosity: Fred Myers and Pintupi Masters at the Kluge-Ruhe
Virtuosity: The Evolution of Painting at Papunya Tula, the new exhibition at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, curated by Fred Myers, is full of moments of astonishing visual delight and magic. One of these occurs near the end of a short … Continue reading
Exciting Times at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
I. Terry Smith on Contemporary (Indigenous) Art On February 13, 2008, the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Aboriginal Art at the University of Virginia sponsored the first John W. and Maria T. Kluge Distinguished Lecture in Arts and Humanities, featuring professor Terry E. Smith … Continue reading
Conversations with Terry Yumbulul
We’ve been gone to Virginia again this week, to hear a pair of lectures at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. The first was entitled “What is Contemporary about Aboriginal Art?” and was given by Professor Terry E. Smith. Smith is the … Continue reading
Sacred or Profane? The Australian Government’s Intervention in Aboriginal Communities
The headline for this post derives from the title of a panel discussion that took place on December 2, sponsored by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia. Organized by curator Margo Smith, the panel was designed to raise … Continue reading
Kununurra, USA
After last week’s post reporting testimony given at Kununurra by, among others, Cathy Cummins and Kim Griffiths of Waringarri Aboriginal Arts in Kununurra, it seems only appropriate that this weekend we traveled up to the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum to see a double-barreled exhibition … Continue reading
Aboriginal Art & Culture: an American eye 