Inside the ‘white hands on black art’ saga

<p>The most damaging controversy the Indigenous art sector has experienced in years started with a video.</p><p>The <em>Ngura Pulka </em>exhibition was set to open in June last year, featuring 28 new paintings by three generations of Aṉangu artists represented by the APY Art Centre Collective in South Australia.</p><p>The footage shows white studio assistants working on canvases from an APY Lands artist, which became the linchpin for a vicious media campaign and provoked a series of investigations.</p><p>Today, art curator Bruce Johnson McLean and reporter and contributor to <em>The Saturday Paper </em>Gabriella Coslovich on the APY art scandal and the complicated question of authenticity in the Aboriginal art world.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Socials: </strong>Stay in touch with us on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/7ampodcast">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.instagram.com/7ampodcast">Instagram</a></p><p><strong>Guest:</strong> Contributor to <em>The Saturday Paper, </em>Gabriella Coslovich.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>