Personal encounters with objects
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 …
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 …
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 playing professionally in symphony orchestras …
Bruce Laurie Seaman (1926 – 2022)
by Chris Boylan 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 of …
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 …
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 …
Mariw Minaral (Spiritual Patterns)
Australian National Maritime Museum. Review by Margaret Cassidy In recent years the Australian National Maritime Museum has used its Indigenous maritime curatorial team to build what some are regarding as …
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 …
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 …