Start Date: Sat, January 31 2009 End Date: Sun, January 3 2010 Event Time: 10am-6pm, 10am-9pm, noon-5pm View Remaining Dates San Diego, CA
The exhibition Oceanic Works features around 70 artworks, from hand-carved sculptures representing ancestors and gods to jewellery, weapons and cooking tools. This exhibition celebrates ancient Oceanic traditions from Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Free-standing figures display a marvelous mastery of wood carving. One 19th-century figure from Papua New Guinea -- more specifically in the area known as New Ireland -- stands nearly 4 feet tall and has a mask-like face with a seemingly sad expression. Its legs are square and powerful looking; the hands are fused into bands of patterned color. Pointed breasts suggest the figure is female; atop its head is a kind of pointed helmet or hat.
By contrast, another striking 19th-century wood figure, this one from the Solomon Islands, is small, only 13-½ inches in height. It is impressively naturalistic, representing a woman with armbands and bracelets, displaying a dark patina.
November 2008- November 2010 Baltimore, MD In spring 2008, the University of Maryland and the Walters Art Museum performed a CT scan on the museum's mummy to conduct a "virtual autopsy," discovering more about the person's age, possible illnesses and cause of death. The virtual autopsy also ... READ MORE
January 2009- December 2009 Washington D.C., DC A special installation of nine works by Mark Rothko (1903?1970), long recognized as one of America's foremost artists, will celebrate the centenary of his birth. The works by Rothko are related to two mural commissions"the Seagram murals and the ... READ MORE
January 2009- January 2010 La Jolla, CA On permanent display at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Pleasure Point is an accumulation of rowboats, canoes, jet skis and surfboards suspended above the west side of the museum's La Jolla facility, created by Los-Angeles based sculptor ... READ MORE
May 2009- March 2011 Malibu, CA Youth as a Lamp Bearer, a long-term loan from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, is on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa.
Created about 20-10 B.C., the Roman bronze figure of a ephebe, or youth, was excavated in ... READ MORE
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