AustLit

'In September 2019, the Menil Collection, a museum located in Houston, hosted the largest exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art to visit the state of Texas. For nearly five months, visitors could contemplate—free of charge pursuant to the Menil's mission—roughly one hundred artworks on loan from the Switzerland-based Fondation Opale. The Menil's own Paul R. Davis curated the exhibition, titled "Mapa Wiya (Your Map's Not Needed)." Mapa Wiya translates as "no map" in the Pitjantjatjara language of the Central Australian desert region. That phrase is inscribed on the show's title work, a drawing by the artist Kunmanara (Mumu Mike) Williams (1952–2019), who sadly did not live to see this, the first showing of his work in a US art museum. Mapa Wiya offered visitors a wide range of contemporary Aboriginal art and hence a rich window into the Aboriginal experience.'  (Introduction)