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...decades ago, Uta Uta Tjangala painted his magisterial Old Man's Dreaming, which marked the Pintupi people's return to their land from the government settlement of Papunya. They brought with them to Kintore, 500 km west of Alice Springs, a lifetime of dreamings, but also something new: Papunya Tula Artists, the movement begun by Geoffrey Bardon in 1971, which is today a multi-million-dollar industry and the community's main provider. Now a whiteboard in the Kintore shed lists their toil (Johnny - 4 by 2; Eileen - 107 by 28; Joseph - 4 by 3 ? ) and linen, gesso and cadmium...
...Most of the town's 300 people are a red-dirt block away at the Pintupi Homelands Health Service, checking out their art movement's latest venture. Papunya Tula - a name suggested to Bardon by artist Charlie Tararu - is Pintupi for "honey ant meeting place," and on Nov. 11, a meeting place it is. A plane has descended on Kintore, and Pintupi elders mix with health officials, fine-art specialists and more camp dogs than you can poke a stick at. "What an amazing combination," notes Peter Toyne, the Northern Territory's Health Minister. "The most remote community in Australia...
...filter impurities in the blood and fight off infections. But while it has struck people as young as 19, it has ravaged the ranks of Pintupi elders, keepers of traditional law and culture. "They do so much to hold the community together," says Paul Sweeney, manager of Papunya Tula Artists. Many of the victims have been the art movement's luminaries. In 1998, just as the movement was about to reach its apotheosis with a 2000 retrospective at Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales, Mick Namarari, Turkey Tolson and Yala Yala Gibbs were all on dialysis in Alice...
...group began to gather at Maningrida settlement. Here a young John Mawurndjul was treated for leprosy, and in 1963, with the Maningrida Social Club, a fledgling art industry began. But the deeply traditional Kuninjku were never happily confined here. As curator Perkins showed so thrillingly in her 2000 Papunya Tula show, a flowering of art in the 1970s was a key resource for Aboriginal people's return to their homelands. Now scattered across 10 outstations, the Kuninjku are small in number (400) but creatively tall, representing a majority of artists at the Maningrida Arts and Culture cooperative...
...minute later, Volga-Aviaexpress Flight 1303 from Moscow to Volgograd disappeared. The wreckage of the planes was quickly found. In all, at least 90 people had been killed. The massive, near-simultaneous nature of the catastrophes was only the first clue that this was terrorism. Villagers in the Tula region, where 1303 fell, heard explosions before the crash. Siberia Airlines said 1047 had put out a "hijack alarm" as it went down. To a country that has become used to terror attacks large and small, the culprits seemed obvious: the Chechens again. Elections for Chechnya's President - replacing Akhmad Kadyrov...