Posts Tagged ‘UCLA’

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An exciting traveling exhibition highlighting a decisive moment in Aboriginal art just opened at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya.  Focusing on the birth of Papunya art in 1971-72, the exhibition shows works from a group of Australian Aboriginal men who transferred their sacred ceremonial designs to masonite boards in the […]