Nestled in the heart of the Urubamba Valley, or Sacred Valley, outside of the city of Cusco (Peru), Pichinku is a grassroots project that brings together ancestral knowledge, specialized artisanal […]
Online: wä dé
With its mix of black and white studio shots, vintage color analog prints, and film stills and recordings, wä dé is a visual archive of Sub-Saharan Africa that comes to […]
Sculptural Pipes and Sacred Materials in the Mississippian World
With polished, ruddy hues and two piercing, wide eyes, the sculptural pipe known to archaeologists as “Big Boy” commands attention. Excavated from a mortuary context at the site of Spiro […]
Kanak Coins
Coins are composite objects exchanged within the Kanak world, the indigenous populations of New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. The labeling of these objects as coins derives from the European […]
A Coffee With: Sinta Ridwan
We met Sinta Ridwan in a Zoom meeting, between Paris and Jakarta. Sinta Ridwan is an Indonesian philologist and archaeologist who works for the recognition of the Hindu and Buddhist […]
To Take Space: “Six Continents or More,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris
“Six Continents or More” is what one might call a patchwork of artistic imaginations. Designed as a season, this mega-exhibition that brings together six individual shows provides space for artists […]
Book Review: Corpus, Kukuli Velarde
Corpus: the body. In the art of Kukuli Velarde, clay becomes flesh. Corpus: a collection of works. Here, a coherent ensemble of fifteen clay effigies that took over a decade […]
Giving Back: Community Projects and Restitution in the Pacific Northwest
Donald Ellis, a renowned Canadian art dealer who founded his gallery of historical Native American art almost five decades ago, has long been confronting some of the issues that plague […]
Nikorima by Isaiah Karaitiana
Masterfully combining studded textures with smooth surfaces and warm wood with glistening inlays, the works of Nikorima, by artist Isaiah Karaitiana, seem to move organically under the shifting natural light. […]
In Conversation: Hsu Yung-hsu, 2019-13
Victoria Lee is a ceramicist and sculptor from Taiwan. For Convergence, she converses with Xiaohan Du, a postdoctoral fellow in the Asian art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art […]
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