The Spectator, July 22nd, 2006
Pacific Encounters: Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, until 13 August
The enlarged, updated and now undivided Sainsbury Centre has reopened with the most comprehensive selection of Polynesian art ever assembled; and yet, shamefully, it has received not a single review.
It would be a waste of space to wonder why, better to state that the stunning Pacific Encounters, curated by Dr Steven Hooper of the University of East Anglia, utterly confounds the supposition that Oceanic art is largely a matter of shell and feather knick-knacks. These super...
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