Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands

Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands
May 10, 2005–January 15, 2006
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, 1st floor

 

CLOSE READING: The Art of Body Language
ANNETTE GRANT 
New York Times, Published: May 1, 2005

“About 80 Marquesan artworks from the late 18th and 19th centuries will be on view in "Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands" at the Metropolitan Museum starting May 10. Eric Kjellgren, the exhibition's curator, says that extensive tattooing was for men of rank and was executed over an entire lifetime. Enduring the pain was part of the mystique.”

NYTimes Interactive Media:
Skin Deep
An annotated guide to the all-over tattoing practiced by the residents of the Marquesas.

The Art of the Marquesas
Annette Grant discusses images from the "Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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