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Times Are A Changing

02/06/2019 By James Elmslie

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 […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V24 Issue 2

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

02/06/2019 By Pierre Bouniol-Laffont

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 […]

Filed Under: 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 Australia

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 […]

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 Australia

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 […]

Filed Under: 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 […]

Filed Under: Reviews, V24 Issue 2

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Sydney Oceanic Art Fair - SAOF 2021

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