Gauguin Beyond ResolutionSamuel Reillyartreview.com28 February 2024A new book, ‘Gauguin and Polynesia’, revisits the painter’s controversial period and the ‘archive of colonial imagery’
What Happens When ‘Vernacular Art’ Enters an Institution?Samuel Reillyartreview.com29 March 2023The unspoken presupposition that artistic value is conferred by the establishment seems at odds with the artwork
Can an Ethnographic Museum Reinvent Itself?Samuel Reillyartreview.com10 June 2022A new exhibition at the musée du Quai Branly in Paris shows what can be achieved when institutions rely on cooperation and exchange, and not the custodianship of colonial collections