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a prosperous gathering talks about art with the Aboriginal activist and artist Richard Bell. Their luxurious catered dinner, however, is interspersed with a threatening news bulletin on the ...
Indigenous artist and activist Richard Bell’s retrospective show at the MCA until November 7.Credit: Nick Moir That was before the contemporary art market became the multi-billion dollar ...
The auction house holds its first dedicated sale of Indigenous Australian art since the passing of Klingender, who was instrumental in developing the market for this category.
A tent festooned with protest placards by the Brisbane-based Indigenous artist Richard Bell will pop up at Tate Modern in London this May. Titled Embassy, the tent will host a programme of public ...
Bell began making art in his early 30s, figuring out it was a way to pursue his activism, without getting arrested. Richard Bell's history as an activist informs his firebrand works, which dissect ...
A new documentary from Larissa Behrendt, You Can Go Now, highlights the life, work and activism of Richard Bell: a self-described “activist masquerading as an artist”. Bell is an ...
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.
Artist Richard Bell in front of one of his paintings in a scene from the documentary You Can Go Now.Credit: Madman Films “Eight months later the government bulldozed my f---in’ house,” he ...
First Nations artist Richard Bell proclaims himself to be an ‘activist masquerading as an artist.’ His confrontational work and attitudes have stirred the Australian art world while being ...
John Quin reports on works by Project Art Works, Richard Bell, IkkibawiKrrr and others at the fifteenth edition of the long-running exhibition of contemporary art in Kassel, Germany If you’ve read ...