Creators, curators, collectors, students, visitors, audiences all have encounters with cultural objects both old and new. The new can be a celebration of the old or it can be a modern interpretation … [Read More...]
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Life in a Museum, Papua New Guinea style
Grace Vele, a/Chief Curator Anthropology, PNG National Museum and Art Gallery The Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Museum and Art Gallery [NMAG] is a world of its own with multiple surprises on offer … [Read More...]
Kevin Conru, Oceanic art collector
Interviewed by Bill Rathmell in Brussels, May 2022 BR: In 2003 you were interviewed by Tribalmania in Santa Fe (https://www.tribalmania.com/interviewconru.html) where you described your early career … [Read More...]
Bruce Laurie Seaman (1926 – 2022)
by Chris Boylan Bruce in Papua Guinea, late 1960s. Bruce Seaman will be remembered as a great family man, married to his beautiful Tahitian wife, Ramine, for 61 years, and as a Voyager and collector … [Read More...]
Carnets Kanak, Voyage en Inventaire de Roger Boulay – Musée Hèbre, Rochefort
by Pierre Laffont As a local precursor to a similar exhibition being hosted later this year in Paris at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques-Chirac, the exhibition Kanak Notebooks, Journey in Inventory … [Read More...]
Hongi’s Hikoi: Tales through Tāonga
18 June 2022 – Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney. Review by Margaret Cassidy A highly successful project launch of Hongi’s Hikoi: Tales through Tāonga was held at the Chau Chak Wing Museum … [Read More...]
Mariw Minaral (Spiritual Patterns)
Australian National Maritime Museum. Review by Margaret Cassidy Ngay, Alick Tipoti 2009. Linocut and handcoloured print on paper. ANMM Collection 00055474. In recent years the Australian National … [Read More...]
Marquesan Festival Matavaa O Te Fenua Enata
July 2022. By Chris Boylan and Sophy Dennett The Marquesas with six main islands in the north-eastern section of French Polynesia has long been a place of imaginings, beyond the relative … [Read More...]
Uli: Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific
2021, 392 pages, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Primedia, Bornival, Belgium. Review by Noelle Rathmell-Stiels This superb book has been six years in the making, but it is well worth the wait. In it, … [Read More...]
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Sydney Oceanic Art Fair : 5 November 2022
As a previous or potential participant, the Oceanic Art Society (OAS) cordially invites you to be part of the Sydney Oceanic Art Fair (SOAF) on Saturday, 5 November 2022, 9am to 5pm.VENUE : The … [Read More...]
OAS FORUM – Adelaide , 26 & 27 November 2022
Invitation to the Oceanic Art Society 2022 Forum at the South Australian Museum Australia in the Pacific: Cultures Past, Present & Future The OAS and SAM are pleased to invite … [Read More...]
Uli : Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific
By Jean-Philippe Beaulieu Published in English by Primedia, Belgium 245 x 330 mm 392 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978 29601375 4 5 Featuring the first and only catalogue raisonné … [Read More...]