“The Interpretation of the Dreaming”
Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert Exhibition Feature
The Village Star-Revue, April 4, 2026
by Jeffrey Goldberg
The paintings are unquestionably beautiful, rich with vibrant colors, precise symmetry, intricate geometric patterns, cross-hatchings and luminescent dots. They are beautiful and I don’t understand them at all. To engage with these paintings is to be confounded.
Fred Myers is trying to enlighten me.
“You’ve got to stand 20 feet back to get the full effect,” he advises.