Mystery Object
By Timothy Pietsch, Manager, Wantok Place, North Adelaide (Museum of Papua New Guinea Artefacts) We have been doing some work at the Wantok Place museum in Adelaide having our collection assessed. …
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Fenoga Tāoga Niue I Aotearoa Niue Heritage Journey In Aotearoa
Pātaka art + Museum, Porirua, Aotearoa New Zealand. November 2023 – February 2024. Review by Margaret Cassidy Porirua (Māori: Pari-ā-Rua) is a small city in the Wellington Region of the …
We are the sea: Oceania: The Shape of Time
2023, pages, Maia Nuku, Met Publications, New York, Distributed by Yale University Press. Reviewed by Erin Vink (Ngiyampaa), Curator, First Nations art (local and global), AGNSW Oceania: The Shape of …
Tim Klingender (1964 – 2023)
Renowned art dealer and authority on Aboriginal art and passionate fisherman, OAS member Tim Klingender, died in a tragic boating accident on 20 July 2023 while fishing with his friend …
Parcours 2023 Subjective
By Krisztina Turza Parcours week saw some unusually soaring temperatures, a contrast to the expected somewhat cool, often rainy September in Paris. This may have also contributed to the celebratory …
Research and Discoveries
This edition sees the publication of a major article by Senior Curator of Anthropology at the South Australian Museum, Philip Jones, extending his lecture at the 2022 OAS Forum held …
Shield shifts: redefining provenance in north-eastern Australia
By Philip Jones ‘Provenance’ is a flexible term. Its meaning and its relevance may shift from one context or another. In the art and artefact market it usually refers to …