Kluge-RuheAboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia is planning Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Bark Painting from Yirrkala. It will feature approximately one hundred works created over the past 80 years; 33 will be new commissions. The show is pioneering a new model of collaboration with the communities whose culture it presents; conceived by artist Djambawa Marawili during a 2015 residency in Virginia, it has been jointly organized by museum staff with Yolgnu artists and curators from the Buku-Larrngay Mulka Art Center in Yirrkala, Australia.
Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala
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The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University acquired the Andy Warhol Photography Archive from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2014. The collection of 3,600 contact sheets and corresponding negatives represents the complete range of Warhol’s black-and-white photographic practice from 1976 until his unexpected death in 1987.