“Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu" is an invitation to dream | Washington Square News, February 27, 2026

On view at NYU’s Grey Art Museum, the exhibition presents a nuanced celebration of over 50 years of Australia’s oldest Aboriginal-owned arts cooperative.

by Mia Shou

For the Aboriginal people of Australia’s Western Desert, dreaming isn’t a trivial matter. Instead, it’s a lifestyle that takes center stage in the Grey Art Museum’s latest exhibition, “Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert.”

Opened on Jan. 22 and organized by the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, the gallery covers the Grey’s walls in over 50 years of work from Papunya Tula Artists, Australia’s oldest Aboriginal-owned arts organization.

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