Elizabeth Fortescue

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Jun 4, 2025 – 12.42pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Industry players in Australia are holding their breath to see whether Indigenous art auctions here will react to the lacklustre results achieved by Sotheby’s Aboriginal Art auction in New York last month. At the Sotheby’s auction on May 21 (New York time), just 37 per cent of 65 lots were sold under the hammer.

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A leading archaeologist has warned of destruction faced by a 50,000-year-old rock art site on the remote Western Australian coast after a controversial Australian government decision this week to extend the life of an adjacent gas mega-project. Environment Minister Murray Watt approved Woodside Energy’s bid to extend its liquified natural gas operations on the Burrup Peninsula (also called Murujuga) by 40 years until 2070.

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elizabeth Fortescue

Indigenous Australian artists were leading innovators at key stages in the postcolonial development of what is now a celebrated art movement. Now, in an exhibition opening at Melbourne University’s Potter Museum of Art on 30 May, their contributions will be celebrated.

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May 21, 2025 – 4.38pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In the month when New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will unveil a gleaming new home for its Aboriginal Australian art collection in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, a tearaway auction of Indigenous art in the same city would have felt fitting and celebratory. Alas, it was not to be. Loading...

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May 14, 2025 – 11.56am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Bids ricocheted around a Sydney auction room last week as collectors battled to secure a Howard Arkley masterwork called Neapolitan delight, driving the picture up to $2.5 million including buyer’s premium and the top of the 2025 auction sales league table.