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V24 Issue 2

Metropolitan Museum of Art Te Maoriexhibition cover 1984

Times Are A Changing

02/06/2019 Cover Story, V24 Issue 2

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 …

Display of Tuhu hoods and Biruko

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

02/06/2019 Symposium, V24 Issue 2

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 …

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

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

02/06/2019 Next Lecture, V24 Issue 2

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 …

Oceania gallery

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

02/06/2019 Museums, V24 Issue 2

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 …

Headdress, Roro people, Yule lsland, PNG

Review: Oceania

02/06/2019 Reviews, V24 Issue 2

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 …

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