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NOW SHOWING | ASIA SOCIETY, NEW YORK MAḎAYIN: EIGHT DECADES OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN BARK PAINTING FROM YIRRKALA | UNTIL 5 JANUARY 2025
Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala culminates its tour of North America at New York's Asia Society until 5 January 2025. This exhibition is a watershed moment in global art history, sharing with the American public a history of Aboriginal Australian bark painting curated by Yolŋu knowledge holders from Arnhem Land in Northern Australia.
NGV ANNOUNCES MAJOR TOURING EXHIBITION | THE STARS WE DO NOT SEE: AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS ART
This month the National Gallery of Victoria announced The Stars We do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art - the largest exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art ever presented internationally. Featuring the undisputed masterpieces from the NGV Collection, the exhibition features over 200 works by more than 130 artists, including many that have never-before left the country.
Following its global premiere on 18 October 2025 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Stars We Do Not See will tour to venues in North America, including Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
BENDIGO ART GALLERY | WATERCOLOUR DREAMING, WORKS FROM THE DR BEVERLEY CASTLEMAN COLLECTION | UNTIL 26 JANUARY 2025
This exhibition of selected works spanning eight decades celebrates a major gift of over 100 Hermannsburg paintings to Bendigo Art Gallery from scholar and collector Dr Beverley Castleman and Mr Alan Castleman.
Dr Castleman’s collecting emphasised kinship connections through the generations of Hermannsburg School artists, tracing the evolution of the movement as artists have taught, inspired, and influenced each other—and developed their own distinctive styles.
THE IAN POTTER CENTRE: NGV AUSTRALIA | REKOSPECTIVE: THE ART OF REKO RENNIE | OPENS 11 OCTOBER 2024
REKOSPECTIVE is an immersive exhibition that charts the bold and dynamic practice of renowned Kamilaroi artist, Reko Rennie. The exhibition resists a conventional chronological sequence, allowing audiences to freely navigate the intersection between culture, politics and identity from a contemporary First Nations perspective.
ACCA | TENNANT CREEK BRIO: JUPARNTA NGATTU MINJINYPA ICONOCRISIS | UNTIL 17 NOVEMBER 2024
ACCA presents the first major survey exhibition of Tennant Creek Brio, an artist collective living and working on Warumungu Country. Fusing First Nations cultural traditions, the industrial materiality of the mining industry, and regional and global art influences, the exhibition asserts and re-imagines the artists’ cross-cultural identities, drawing upon the haunting wounds of post-contact histories, the renewal and remaking of cultural practices, and the collaborative resilience and audaciously punk attitude of a frontier community.
