Aboriginal art industry booming in outback
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Aboriginal art in Australia is booming and improving the lives of poor black communities, but unscrupulous dealers are ripping off artists and fraud from China and India is undermining the industry.
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A painting that hung for several years in a bank cafeteria has set a new record price for Australian aboriginal artwork, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday, confirming the ongoing boom for the genre.
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A new generation of hip-hop acts is  emerging from a community ravaged by poverty, drugs, alcohol  and education problems and struggling with a lack of  opportunities: Australia's indigenous peoples.
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"We think of the exhibition as a medium, a move away from representation toward production"  Documenta, the world's largest contemporary art show that is held every five years, opens for the 12th time this weekend, boasting more than 500 works from 113 artists.The $25.3 million show opens Saturday in the central German city of Kassel, and runs for 100 days.It brings together disparate works of modern artists, including a photo series by Palestinian artist Ahlam Schibli focusing on the lives of her people. There is also a performance art piece by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei that will see 1,001 Chinese people _ including farmers, workers and police officers _ fly to Germany and then walk through the streets of Kassel for a week. Read more
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Australia attracted the largest number of immigrants for a decade in the past financial year and is among the top three countries in resettling asylum seekers, despite its tough refugee policies, new data showed.
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Rob Pruitt's new paintings and sculpture opened last week at Gavin BrownÂs Enterprise.
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Australia's aboriginal population is booming as more people identify themselves as indigenous, but Aborigines continue to be the nation's most disadvantaged group, dying some 17 years younger.
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A growing number of artists have starting selling one-a-day creations online.
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BRISBANE, Australia : An Aboriginal community in northern Australia is calm and under heavy guard after the death of a young indigenous man in police custody triggered riots.
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TONY EASTLEY: For years Australia&#39;s economy has been going at a cracking pace. Boom and surge were the words that accompanied the Treasurer&#39;s descriptions of the economy as Australia enjoyed growth not seen since the 1960s.
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Crocodile meat, lilly pillies, and other wild foods are leaving the bush for Australian supermarkets, creating business opportunities for Aboriginal communities.
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Country auction are drawing customers from far-off country towns into a swirl of barbeque and homemade pies and twangy music.
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The winding lines of shipping  containers outside Casella Wines may mark the high-point of  Australia&#39;s A$3 billion wine export market as drought and  possible climate shift bite.
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The art scene is booming like never before. A guide to understanding the madness, bracing for the backlash and enjoying it while it lasts.
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New report on offshoring points to greater acceptance among Australians.
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Australia's parliament opened with a landmark Aboriginal ceremony Tuesday as a dramatic symbol of the new government's pledge to right injustices of the past.
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SOWETO, South Africa  - South Africa is scouring the globe to recover lost works by black artists that depict the turbulent apartheid era in a drive to educate young people about the struggle against white rule.