News and Events


Colloquium Lecture Series





Icons of the Desert 

Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
09/01/09 - 12/05/09
Grey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003
(212) 998 6780
Public Programs

New Indigenous Cinema from Australia
Saturday, September 12, 1:00–4:30 pm
National Museum of the American Indian, The George Gustav Heye Center
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green, The Screening Room

Discussion to follow with Beck Cole, Warwick Thornton (Kayteye), and Faye Ginsburg, Director, Center for Media, Culture and History, NYU.


CAS Dean's Lecture
Showing Too Much, Showing Too Little: The Predicament of Aboriginal Painting in Central Australia

Thursday, September 17, 6:30 pm, Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Fred Myers
, Silver Professor and Chair of Anthropology, NYU


All these dots are making me dizzy:
An Indigenous Perspective on the Australian Western Desert Dot Painting Movement

Thursday, October 22, 6:00 pm
Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
Franchesca Cubillo
(Larrakia), Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra


Landscapes of Longing: Place and Image in the Early Papunya Boards
Thursday, November 5, 6:00 pm
Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
Roger Benjamin
, guest curator of the exhibition and Research Professor in Art History and Actus Foundation Lecturer in Aboriginal Art, University of Sydney





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