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July 11, 2019

Gagosian Quarterly Talks

Desert Painters of Australia

To coincide with Desert Painters of Australia, an exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art at Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, the gallery hosted a conversation between leading authorities Fred Myers, Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University, and Henry Skerritt, Curator of Indigenous Arts of Australia at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, and Margo Smith AM, director of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.

Gagosian Quarterly Talks: Desert Painters of Australia, Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, May 21, 2019; video: Pushpin Films; introduction: Louise Neri

Desert Painters of Australia: Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia and the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield, Gagosian, New York, May 3–July 3, 2019; Desert Painters of Australia Part II: With Works from the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, July 26–September 6, 2019

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