Asia Society Museum presents Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala, the first major exhibition of Aboriginal Australian bark paintings to tour the United States.

In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the symbolism of the animal, a tortoise, which is strongly related to the tribe that painted it.

That is how Yananymul Mununggurr describes the creation of the Yirrkala bark petitions ... land rights movement and the ongoing fight for Aboriginal rights in this country. Today, the Yirrkala ...