DONNA KARAN is associated with the fashion capitals of the world: New York, Paris ... Redfern? The US designer made a visit to the inner-Sydney suburb yesterday to meet children from the Aboriginal community and support Australian photographer Russell James at the launch of a reconciliation project. James's Nomad Two Worlds exhibition is a collaboration with hip-hoppers Black Eyed Peas and indigenous artist and singer Clifton Bieundurry, and inspired by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generation in February last year. Karan said the project was similar to the work...

Click here  to see new pics from the Nomad Two Worlds crew.  Russell James, Donna Karan, Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas, and artist Clifton Bieundurry visit the Redfern Community center to discuss and spread the message of Nomad Two Worlds.  Other pics include a celebration of NTW which coincided with Donna Karan's birthday.

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will.i.am collaborates with photographer Russell James on `Nomad Two Worlds' art project

 The frontman of the Black Eyed Peas has taken up another cause.

 In collaboration with Australian photographer Russell James' "Nomad Two Worlds" art project, will.i.am has created a song that will be used in a viral music video featuring Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, celebrities like Hugh Jackman and James' images of Aborigines.

 "I met Will and told him what was going on," said James, who has shot ad campaigns for Victoria's Secret. "Out of complete coincidence, Hugh...

One year ago tomorrow, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on his first day of office, officially apologized to the Indigenous people of Australia -- for 200 years of oppression, Genocide (the stolen generations), etc. This speech, like the one in New Hampshire that inspired will.i.am to create the "Yes We Can" video, was the impetus for this video which celebrates Reconciliation through Art. I traveled with Indigenous Australian artist Clifton Bieundurry to places of cultural significance to Australian Aboriginal people. James photographed sacred sites and printed enlarged...

In WA’s pristine Kimberley, a pro-development Premier hopes to construct a vast – and highly lucrative – gas-processing plant.  Opponents say it will destroy one of the world’s last great wilder nesses. Janet Hawley  reports from the front line.   There was a time when the Kimberley, that glorious ancient crown atop Western Australia, seemed so remote that it might manage to survive as the last great tropical savannah wilderness on the planet.  Stretching east from Broome to the Northern Territory border, and almost twice the size of Victoria, this...

The frontman of the Black Eyed Peas has taken up another cause. In collaboration with Australian photographer Russell James' "Nomad Two Worlds" art project, will.i.am has created a new song that will be used in a viral music video featuring Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, celebrities like Hugh Jackman and James' images of Aborigines. The viral music video will be released on dipdive.com, the Web site that will.i.am debuted the pro-Obama video "Yes We Can" to millions of online views last year. That video featured celebrities reciting lines from a speech by Obama over a will.i.am tune....

Can Aussie art reconcile whites and Aboriginals? The first thing that captivated me about Australia as a 6-year-old researching the country for a school report was its wildlife. I remember lovingly tracing the outlines of those almost mythic (at least to me) animals--the koalas, the kangaroos, the wombats--and thinking what a magical place Australia must be to have such wonderful, strange creatures. Soon after, I acquired an assortment of stuffed marsupials, and my mother and I would spend hours before bedtime spinning stories about a fictional duck-billed platypus that I named, of all...

It was an antipodean frenzy Thursday night at the Stephen Weiss Studio in the Urban Zen center, in New York City’s West Village, as Hugh Jackman and his wife, Deborra Lee-Jackman, played host to the opening of “Nomad: Two Worlds.” The exhibition bridges the aboriginal culture of Australia with modern photographic art. “I grew up in Western Australia, which is a very bigoted part of the country,” explained photographer Russell James who was spurred to work on the project after last year’s apology from the government to the indigenous people. “Although I grew up...