Oceanic art can be studied from a number of angles. This art can be approached from an anthropological or ethnographic … [Read More...]
Journal Content
Travels of the Lily: from Lake Sentani to the National Gallery
by Crispin Howarth Main image caption: Le Lys as currently displayed in the exhibition ‘Emotional Bodies’ next to works … [Read More...]
Solomon Islands carved coconut used in the practice of teeth blackening
Clémentine Débrosse In 1568, Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira was the first European to visit the Archipelago now known as the … [Read More...]
Djalkiri-Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections
2021, 320 pages, Edited by Rebecca J. Conway, Sydney University Press Reviewed by Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby … [Read More...]
Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved & Twined
Main image caption: Yibiyung Roma Winar, Noongar Language, Mountain Devil, c.1998. Perth, Western Australia. Emu Egg, … [Read More...]
Harry Beran | Tributes received by the OAS
Main image caption: Dr Harry Beran interviews residents of Egum Islet in Milne Bay in October 2017. Photograph: Luke … [Read More...]
War Art and Ritual: Visit to Bill Evans’s Shield Collection
Reviewed by Bill Rathmell Whenever I go to an art gallery or museum show, I buy the catalogue (or I don’t) on the basis … [Read More...]
