The OAS has shifted gear under the energetic leadership of our new president, Bill Rathmell, who has revitalised the main OAS committee and various sub-committees working on the website, the […]
Indigenous perspectives in The National 2017: new Australian art
NEXT LECTURE Wednesday 17 May 2017 – OAS Lecture, in the Centenary Auditorium, Art Gallery of NSW, 6:30 – 8pm. Free. Anneke Jaspers – Curator, Contemporary Art at the Art […]
The Reverend Fellows Collection of Trobriand Art
A report on Crispin Howarth’s OAS Lecture, by Jim Elmslie The ‘lost’ collection of Massim art of the late Methodist missionary, the Reverend Samuel Fellows, lay undisturbed beneath the family […]
Axel Bojsen-Møller – Globetrotter, the wreck of the Monsoon and the first New Guinea expedition
By Leif Birger Holmstedt The Department of Ethnography at the Danish National Museum has one of the largest and finest collections in the world of artifacts from Oceania, Melanesia and […]
Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand The Maori Portraits
Edited by Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope. Auckland University Press in association with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 20l6. Reviewed by Marina Garlick This splendid tome complements a fascinating […]
Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens Photographic Reference
By W. D. Webster. Review by Crispin Howarth William Downing Webster (1868 – 1913) began collecting and dealing in arms, armour and ethnographic material from the 1890s until his death. […]