http://blog.humuhumu.com/2007/04/03/papua-new-guinea-art-in-menlo-park Reports from your intrepid tiki explorer, Humuhumu Mon, 13 May 2013 02:05:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2007/04/03/papua-new-guinea-art-in-menlo-park/comment-page-1#comment-50223 Brittanie Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:19:07 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2007/04/03/papua-new-guinea-art-in-menlo-park#comment-50223 The Menil, my favorite museum in Houston (which is free, by the way) has an pretty extensive permanent collection of tribal and oceanic arts, lots from PNG. The museum also has a large collection of Surrealist works, mostly Magritte, and the tribal arts room explains that many of the Surrealists were obsessed with tribal artwork as the purest, least self-conscious form of art in history. Many of the oceanic items belonged to Magritte himself. Ya know, if you’re ever in Houston.

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