Wednesday, 7 June 2006

Polynesian crafts at Sainsbury

Bowl with two figure supports (detail)
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, presents an exhibition of Polynesian art. Pacific Encounters: Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 continues until 13 August 2006. Looks more like a crafts exhibition to me. You know the sort of thing: badly carved wooden gods with ivory teeth. The graphic apparently showing modern stainless steel tubing is allegedly a detail of a mid-18th c. bowl made of wood, pearl shell and boar's tusks. You sure about this, Sainsbury? Maybe your photographer shot a 20th century chair by mistake. I'd check this with the Brit. Museum, if I were you. And while I'm at it, if Sainsbury knows so much about art, how come Tesco's graphic designs are better than yours?

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