Resource Spotlight | “Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus” by Joan Aruz, ed. & Ronald Wallenfels
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Oceanic Art | Winter 2025 Reading List
Articles & Curations, Book Features, Curations & ListsEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Oceanic Art, Oceania, Michael Gunn, Atua: Sacred Gods from Polynesia, Te Maori: Maori Art from New Zealand Collections, Sidney Moko Mead, Maori Art, Peter Brunt, Christina Hellmich, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Pacific Encounters, Royal Hawaiian Featherwork: Nā Hulu Ali‘i, Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia 1760–1860, Steven Hooper, New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific, Power and Prestige: The Art of Clubs in Oceania, Art of the Solomon Islands: The Barbier-Mueller Collection, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Deborah Waite, Jean-Paul Barbier, Solomon Islands, Marquesas Islands, Eric Kjellgren, Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection, Jolika Collection, John Friede, Virginia-Lee Webb, Melanesian Art, Arts of the South Seas: Island Southeast Asia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia, Douglas Newton, Fiji, Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific, Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island, Easter Island, Polynesia: The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art, Mark Blackburn, Uli: Powerful Ancestors of the Pacific, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Korwar: Northwest New Guinea Ritual Art According to Missionary Sources, Raymond Corbey, Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, Lake Sentani, Humboldt Bay, The Menil Collection, Shadows of New Guinea: Art from the Great Oceania Island in the Barbier-Mueller Collection, Philippe Peltier, Floriane Morin, Nukuoro: Sculptures from Micronesia, Nukuoro, Micronesian Art, Christian Kaufmann, Olivier Wick, New Guinea Highlands: Art from the Jolika Collection, Terence E. Hays, de Young Museum, Oceania: The Shape of Time, Maia Nuku
Resource Spotlight | “Gold of the Americas” by Julie Jones and Heidi King
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “The Mystery of Easter Island: The Story of an Expedition” by Mrs. Scoresby Routledge
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era” by Daniel Walker
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age” | Edited by Joan Aruz, Sarah B. Graff, & Yelena Rakic
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
“SEA ART” by Ana & Antonio Casanovas of Arte y Ritual with contributions from Jerome Feldman, Philippe Bourgoin, & Wil Roebroeks | Review by Steven G. Alpert
Book FeaturesSteven G. AlpertArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold, Antonio Casanovas, Ana Gaspar, Ana Casanovas, Arte Y Ritual, Jerome Feldman, Philippe Bourgoin, Wil Roebroeks, Sea Art, Southeast Asian Art
Resource Spotlight | “Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Maxwell K. Hearn
Articles & Curations, Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection” by Kate Ezra
Articles & Curations, Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “The Commonality of Humans through Art: How Art Connects Mankind through the Ages” — Created and Edited by Stuart Handler
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold, Stuart Handler
Interview with Peter Lee & Resource Spotlight | “Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship — Nyonya Oeij Soen King, Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, Jane Hendromartono”
Interviews, Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold, Batik Nyonyas
Resource Spotlight | “An Annotated Bibliography of Indonesian, Filipino & Malay Edged Weapons” by T.D. Rogers
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold, Weapons, T.D. Rogers, Indonesian Weapons
Resource Spotlight | “Glass of the Sultans” by Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “Southeast Asia: A History in Objects” by Alexandra Green
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold, Alexandra Green, The British Museum, Southeast Asia
Resource Spotlight | “Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs” by Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit, Martina Rugiadi, and A. Peacock
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold, Eric Moltzau Anderson, Court and Cosmos
Resource Spotlight | “Oceania: The Shape of Time” by Maia Nuku
Book FeaturesMaia NukuArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “Tanimbar Maluku: The Unique Moluccan Photographs of Petrus Drabbe” by Petrus Drabbe, Nico de Jonge, and Toos van Dijk
Book Features, Articles ArchiveNico de JongeArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid” by Gregory Forth
Book FeaturesGregory ForthArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353” by Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold
Resource Spotlight | “Arts of Korea” from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Book FeaturesEditorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold