In brief, 12/06/2006
Staff and wire reports
Santa Fe New Mexican
December 6, 2006
... "Petroglyphs of Rapanui" is scheduled for 5 to 8 p.m. today at the Gran Salon in El Museo Cultural, 1615B Paseo de Peralta ... running parallel to the Santa Fe Film Festival, which is showing the film Being RapaNui, funded partly by a grant from National Geographic All Roads Film Project.
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Thought Travels at The James W. Palmer Gallery
Artdaily.com
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Works by the sculptor Strong-Cuevas, including those in her new exhibition Thought Travels, often suggest objects produced by mighty civilizations. Comparisons can be made to figures seen, for example, in Mayan and Egyptian art, from the profiles of people depicted in narrative wall paintings to the simple lines of works in stone made in tribute to revered rulers and omnipotent deities, including the enigmatic heads of Easter Island.
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Power & Taboo: Sacred objects from the Pacific
28 September 2006 – 7 January 2007
British MuseumRoom 5
Admission free
Power & Taboo explores the power of the gods in the Polynesian islands of the eastern Pacific. Displaying part of the British Museum's remarkable early collections from this region, and illustrated with images made in the early part of European settlement (1760-1860), the exhibition investigates Polynesian ideas about the gods and how to manage their powers. Many of the objects have had a lasting influence on 20th Century artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore. Lectures, films and events, which tie in with the themes of the exhibition, will begin later this month.
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Fresh light on the new world in pictures that helped inspire first English settlers
Mark Brown, arts correspondent
The Guardian
Friday September 8, 2006
Drawing on the [British Museum's] unparalleled collections in this area - there will be 82 exhibits from an astonishing collection of 45,000 items held - it will show how people lived in this vast island group between New Zealand, Hawaii and Easter Island.
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