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The Agile Art World

30/08/2021 Cover Story, V26 Issue 3

Being agile and pivoting are words long associated with innovation and the tech world. However, they are now commonly being used in the art world to describe the quick responses …

Massim canoes in the Milne Bay Province,Papua New Guinea

30/08/2021 Research, V26 Issue 3

by David Payne The traditional canoes of the Massim region of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are colourful, stylish, and sophisticated. These traditional wooden canoes are …

Man Who Cannot Die – Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands – Book launch talk

30/08/2021 Book Launch, V26 Issue 3

Chris Boylan These shields are from the New Guinea Highlands and a major feature is their colour. This is very much part of the New Guinea tradition to have colourful …

Man Who Cannot Die – Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands

29/08/2021 Book Reviews, V26 Issue 3

2021, 296 pages, Edited by Jonathan Fogel, with contributions from Chris Boylan, Bruce Cree, Hubert Langmann, Kevin Patrick, and Jessica Lindsey Phillips.  Sydney & Toronto: Boylan and Phillips. Reviewed by Noelle …

Georgina Beier 1938 – 2021

29/08/2021 In Memoriam, V26 Issue 3

By Keith Jackson Georgina Beier, called the ‘founding mother’ of contemporary art in Papua New Guinea, died in Sydney on Sunday 11 July 2021 aged 82. Her husband, Ulli Beier …

The Whole Picture

29/08/2021 Book Reviews, V26 Issue 3

Image: George Nuku, 2021, The red wall, lithographs of the Atlas du voyage de l’Astrolabe, reworked and polystyrene frame at Musée Hèbre Rochefort, France.  Photograph: Clémentine Débrosse. 2020, 304 pages, Alice Procter, Cassell Books, …

Diverse Studies of Individual Oceanic Art Objects

31/05/2021 Cover Story, V26 Issue 2

Oceanic art can be studied from a number of angles. This art can be approached from an anthropological or ethnographic aspect and from the perspective of art history or visual …

Travels of the Lily: from Lake Sentani to the National Gallery

31/05/2021 Objects, V26 Issue 2

by Crispin Howarth Main image caption: Le Lys as currently displayed in the exhibition ‘Emotional Bodies’ next to works by artists including Miro, Epstein and Modigliani. Image courtesy National Gallery of …

Solomon Islands carved coconut used in the practice of teeth blackening

31/05/2021 Research, V26 Issue 2

Clémentine Débrosse In 1568, Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira was the first European to visit the Archipelago now known as the Solomon Islands. At the time, Mendaña y Neira was …

Djalkiri-Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections

31/05/2021 Book Reviews, V26 Issue 2

2021, 320 pages, Edited by Rebecca J. Conway, Sydney University Press Reviewed by Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby Djalkiri-Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections is an elegantly designed book produced to coincide …

Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved & Twined

31/05/2021 Exhibitions, V26 Issue 2

Main image caption: Yibiyung Roma Winar, Noongar Language, Mountain Devil, c.1998. Perth, Western Australia. Emu Egg, 9.5 x 15 x 8.5 cm. Berndt Museum of Anthropology Collection [1998/0058] Presented by the Berndt …

Harry Beran | Tributes received by the OAS

31/05/2021 In Memoriam, V26 Issue 2

Main image caption: Dr Harry Beran interviews residents of Egum Islet in Milne Bay in October 2017. Photograph: Luke Wong, ABC. Reproduced with permission of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Scholar, author …

War Art and Ritual: Visit to Bill Evans’s Shield Collection

31/05/2021 Collections, V26 Issue 2

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 of the “wow” factor of the …

New places, new ways of engaging across cultures

05/03/2021 Cover Story, V26 Issue 1

The summer of 2020-2021 has seen the opening of some significant new or renovated/expanded museums from the east to the west coast in Australia. Those of us in Sydney have …

Ambassadors and embassies in the new Chau Chak Wing Museum

05/03/2021 Museums, V26 Issue 1

by Matt Poll Image: Djon Mundine OAM. The easiest way I could describe the Ambassadors exhibition is that I am using the protocols of an acknowledgement of country as a framework for …

An Important Addition to the Sculptures Known to be from the Kiwai area

05/03/2021 Research, V26 Issue 1

by David Ferguson This article describes a remarkable and previously undocumented female ancestral sculpture carved in the round in a fully conceived naturalistic style (Fig.1) which appears most closely related …

Introducing CASOAR

05/03/2021 Societies, V26 Issue 1

by the Members of CASOAR In the Summer of 2017, a group of friends studying at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris who specialised in the Arts and Anthropology of …

Evarne Coote

05/03/2021 In Memoriam, V26 Issue 1

by Eric Coote On 5 January 2021 we lost Evarne Coote, a long time friend of the OAS and the world of tribal art collectors. Evarne spent her life serving …

Stranger-Artist

The Stranger Artist:

05/03/2021 Book Reviews, V26 Issue 1

Life at the edge of Kimberley painting  2020, 278 pages, Quentin Sprague, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne.  Reviewed by Margaret Cassidy The rise of the Aboriginal art industry in the 1980s …

25 years of the OAS

30/11/2020 Cover Story, V25 Issue 4

Photo Caption: The 2012 OAS Forum at the SA Museum. Photo by Michelle Haywood.  2020 is a very significant milestone in the history of the Oceanic Art Society. As is outlined …

Creating change for a quarter of a century: The Oceanic Art Society

30/11/2020 OAS 25 years, V25 Issue 4

by Crispin Howarth The Australian-based international Oceanic Art Society (OAS) is celebrating its quarter of a century recognising and appreciating non-western arts of Australia and the Pacific. It began with …

Oh boy… 25 years already!

29/11/2020 OAS 25 years, V25 Issue 4

by Anthony Meyer I remember the inception of the Oceanic Art Society when Harry Beran first mentioned the idea in the early 1990s. We discussed it face to face during …

Comments on the Oceanic Art Society

29/11/2020 Collectors, V25 Issue 4

by Michael Hamson I have been a part of the Oceanic Art Society for so long I cannot remember ever NOT being a member. In fact, I don’t even ever …

A Bird-Headed Kanak club in Norwich

29/11/2020 Objects, V25 Issue 4

by Carolina Gallarini While objects from Oceania can be viewed in several museums in the United Kingdom including the British Museum in London, the National Museums of Scotland or the …

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