Aboriginal Australian art is hard to find in New York, so it was a special pleasure to spend time with a baker's dozen of impressive works from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection and the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield at Gagosian Gallery this morning. More than a pleasure, I was overwhelmed by turns with with joy, with grief, with wonder. Photos were permitted, so here are glimpses of works by Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri (Rockholes and Country Near the Olgas, 2007), Willy Tjungurrayi (Untitled, 2001), and Emily Kame Kngwarreye (Hungry Emus, 1990 and Kame Yam Awelye, 1996).
