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Wylda Bayrón at Le Musée de la Castre, Cannes

03/09/2019 By Oceanic Art Society

by Chris Boylan  Dominating the hill overlooking Cannes city and the Mediterranean is the ancient medieval castle and tower, now the  ethnological museum, of Cannes, Le Musée de la Castre. The museum has a small, but very fine collection of Oceanic art including great Polynesian objects and early New Guinea pieces. An exhibition in the museum […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Members Only, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Massim Canoes – drawings of the unique outrigger canoes from the Solomon Seas

03/09/2019 By Oceanic Art Society

Tasman Light Gallery, National Maritime Museum, Sydney – 1 August to 29 September 2019 The Massim culture of Papua New Guinea is home to a unique collection of colourful outrigger canoes used for trade and are vital to the significant inter-island and community exchange of precious artefacts known simply as Kula. Located in the Solomon Sea […]

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Filed Under: Expeditions, Members Only, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Sepik Ramu Art

03/09/2019 By Elmslie James

Edited by Kevin Conru. 296 pages illustrating 170 objects from three private collections. Photographs by Hughes Dubois. Edition limited to 500 copies, €295. Conru Editions, released in May 2019. Review by Emilie Jolly Sepik Ramu Art celebrates the broad diversity of art productions from the plain of the Sepik and Ramu rivers. This volume, edited […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Times Are A Changing

02/06/2019 By Elmslie James

Metropolitan Museum of Art Te Maoriexhibition cover 1984

In this issue of the of the OAS Journal we are fortunate to have Dr Maia Nuku, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, chart the evolution of that institution over the last 50 years, particularly in the decisions taken that resulted in its present day collections of Pacific art. Through the actions […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V24 Issue 2

Pacific Arts Association International Symposium, March 24 – 28, Brisbane

02/06/2019 By Bouniol-Laffont Pierre

Display of Tuhu hoods and Biruko

By Pierre Laffont The XIII Pacific Art Association (“PAA”) international Symposium took place over four days on 24-28 March in Brisbane. It was organised by the Queensland Museum in partnership with all the major cultural institutions on the South Bank of Brisbane (Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Queensland Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art (“GOMA”), State Library […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Symposium, V24 Issue 2

Bridge and barrier: Torres Strait and curious artefact distributions between Queensland and New Guinea

02/06/2019 By Oceanic Art Society

Armshells such as this were made in Torres Strait and traded northwards into New Guinea

In this talk, Ian McNiven will outline what he calls the “Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere” as a framework to help shed light on why some ethnographic artefact types are shared between northern Queensland and southern New Guinea but other artefact types fail to extend across Torres Strait. Different distributions of artefact types provide new […]

Filed Under: Next Lecture, V24 Issue 2

Expanding the Visual Canon: Fifty years of Oceanic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1969-2019)

02/06/2019 By Oceanic Art Society

Oceania gallery

By Maia Nuku The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of Oceanic art includes over two thousand works of art from the Pacific: ancestral treasures handed down across the generations that were created in islands and archipelagoes that extend across a vast expanse of ocean. Highlights of the collection include the landmark architectural installation or ‘Kwoma […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Museums, V24 Issue 2

Review: Oceania

02/06/2019 By Marina Garlick

Headdress, Roro people, Yule lsland, PNG

by Marina Garlick Oceania is the title of the catalogue of the eponymous exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London to mark 250 years since James Cook set out on his first voyage. It also celebrates 250 years since the founding of the Royal Academy. The exhibition was organised by the Royal […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Reviews, V24 Issue 2

Lost in transit

01/06/2019 By Oceanic Art Society

Lost in transit, Launceston, Tasmania. If anyone has any information concerning this woomera please contact John Hawkins via our contact page. A rare and early spear-thrower woomera– early 19th Century. Australian Aborigine, collected in the Murray River region 1830-1840. The subtly curved body of the thrower has a hand grip of gum and at the opposite end […]

Filed Under: All Journal Articles, Artefacts, Latest News, V24 Issue 2

Collectors and Collections: OAS Forum 2019 a Triumph

26/03/2019 By Elmslie James

The 2019 Oceanic Art Society Forum was an intellectual and emotional odyssey. Oceanic art represents and encompasses many things: sublime beauty and irresistible mystery; cultural treasure; markers of colonial dispossession and loss, but also continuity and hope. That indeed is what Oceanic art is: objects that bind people through time; binding those who made them […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, Forums, V24 Issue 1

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