BLOG QUEENSLAND SHIELDS  POSTED BY SIMON ELLIOTT   ●   7 AUG 2020   ‘I, Object’, currently on display at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until 29 August 2021, focuses on objects rather than paintings to reveal the rich history of Indigenous Australian culture from colonial times to the present day. Within the exhibition, a selection of […]

Written by K. Huffman, Honorary Curator, National Museum, Vanuatu Cultural Centre; Research Associate, Australian Museum. The Australian Museum now has links with Australian South Sea Islanders – ASSI (Port Jackson) – and decades of close links with Vanuatu, signified especially since its 1981 repatriation of the large now-famous Efate Island slit drum given in recognition […]

Until 27 September 2020. Extended digital program from 28 September. http://www.casulapowerhouse.com Time Out says : Fijian culture is celebrated in this exciting exhibition gathering artists from the diaspora Contemporary Fijian art and storytelling are celebrated in a poignant new exhibition at the Casula Powerhouse, Bittersweet. The exhibition is curated by Western Sydney artist Shivanjani Lal, a […]

The National Museum & Art Gallery received 225 cultural objects that have been returned to Papua New Guinea from the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Museum Director, Dr. Andrew Moutu said “we are delighted to receive some very stunning and powerful pieces of ethnographic objects that have been returned to us with remarkable care […]

This exhibition of 153 works from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection , supplemented by 130 loans of rare historical objects and contemporary works drawn from Australian public and private collections, will run from 13 November 2020 to 8 March 2021. TIWI also premiers YOYI (Dance), an exciting multi-channel projection video work, which comprises sound […]

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Students of Oceanic Art – future curators and academics – from the Ecole du Louvre in Paris banded together in 2019 and launched an association with a fantastic blog which is named CASOAR (cassowary in French). You can access it in French/English on https://casoar.org/

The National Maritime Museum in Sydney reopens partially and with social distancing. This exhibition featuring artworks by twenty leading Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian contemporary artists provides a deeper understanding to the people and places of the Pacific Ocean. From 22 June to 6 November 2020. www.sea.museum/whats-on/exhibitions/here-kupe-to-cook

This wonderful exhibition opened in February 2020 and had to close in March due to Covid. Instead of ending in August 2020, it is now reopened until April 2021. PAA-Europe is planning to hold the annual symposium in Leiden in November 2020. The website with English translation is a real pleasure http://www.volkenkunde.nl/en