Papunya Tula Artists

“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 […]

“Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide”
Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert Exhibition Feature
Hyperallergic, March 2, 2026

The gleeful subversiveness of Duchamp at MoMA, the first major US show on Raphael at The Met, and exhibitions on spirituality, the body, fashion, and more. by Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor Excerpt: More than half a century ago, the first Aboriginal-owned art cooperative in Australia broke barriers and established a hub for First Nations […]

“‘Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu’ is an invitation to dream”
Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert Exhibition Review
Washington Square News, February 27, 2026

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 […]

“Western Desert painting returns to New York with major exhibition”
Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert Exhibition Feature
National Indigenous Times, January 5, 2026

by Natasha Clark Note: This story contains the name and image of someone who has died. The legacy of late Aboriginal artist Clifford Possum Jampijinpa, who was exhibiting in New York by the late 1980s, continues this month as Western Desert painting returns to the city. The works of Mr Possum Jampijinpa, also known as […]

PRESS RELEASE<br>Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert<br>Grey Art Museum, NYU, December 2, 2025

PRESS RELEASE
Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert
Grey Art Museum, NYU, December 2, 2025

NYU’s Grey Art Museum Presents First U.S. Survey of Australia’s Most Iconic Aboriginal Art Movement Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert January 22–April 11, 2026 Exhibition reflects on the fifty-year history of Papunya Tula Artists, Australia’s oldest Aboriginal-owned arts organization Press Contact Sofeia Eddy | sofeia.eddy@nyu.edu | 212-998-6782 [Download Press Release] […]