The summer of 2020-2021 has seen the opening of some significant new or renovated/expanded museums from the east to the … [Read More...]
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Ambassadors and embassies in the new Chau Chak Wing Museum
by Matt Poll Image: Djon Mundine OAM. The easiest way I could describe the Ambassadors exhibition is that I am using the … [Read More...]

An Important Addition to the Sculptures Known to be from the Kiwai area
by David Ferguson This article describes a remarkable and previously undocumented female ancestral sculpture carved in … [Read More...]

Introducing CASOAR
by the Members of CASOAR In the Summer of 2017, a group of friends studying at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris who … [Read More...]

Evarne Coote
by Eric Coote On 5 January 2021 we lost Evarne Coote, a long time friend of the OAS and the world of tribal art … [Read More...]

The Stranger Artist:
Life at the edge of Kimberley painting 2020, 278 pages, Quentin Sprague, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne. Reviewed by … [Read More...]
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In Memoriam : Harry Beran
To Members and Friends of the Oceanic Art Society It is with heavy hearts that we have learned of the death of Harry Beran, founder member and first President of the Society, in Cambridge, England, … [Read More...]

Chris Boylan – Catalogue for San Francisco Tribal Art Fair 2021
https://www.flipsnack.com/grumpywombat/chris-boylan-san-francisco-tribal-art-fair-2021.html?p=1 … [Read More...]

VIDEO PRESENTATION | Dr Barry Craig: New Guinea – what I did and what I saw.
Oceanic Art Society Lecture Meeting 19 September 2018. “I went to New Guinea in 1962 as an Education Officer (‘chalkie’) and asked to be posted to Telefomin where I remained until 1965. I returned … [Read More...]