All Stories
Aug 30, 2006
Discovering Dreamtime
Written by DCist contributor Paul Ghosh-Roy. The aboriginal culture of Australia is said to date back 50,000 years — the longest continuous culture of any people on earth. Dreaming Their Way, an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, celebrates this tradition and the contributions that contemporary female aboriginal artists have made to the various styles of aboriginal painting. Among this variety of styles, the “dot style” depicts both figures and abstract…