THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Ken Johnson
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An Indonesian tunic, made around 1910, in “East of the Wallace Line”
at Yale University. Credit Yale University Art Gallery |
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East of the Wallace Line: Monumental Art From Indonesia and New Guinea,” opening Friday at the Yale University Art Gallery, will present more than 120 works of art and craft from the 17th to the 19th century made by people living east of that line. Drawn from the gallery’s Indo-Pacific art collection, the exhibition will include large, ritual and ancestral statues carved from wood; small, intricately carved ceremonial and utilitarian objects made of wood, ivory, and brass; richly patterned textiles; and wooden shields inlaid with mother-of-pearl. [
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Yale University Art Gallery: "East of the Wallace Line: Monumental Art From Indonesia and New Guinea" (August 15, 2014–Sunday, February 1, 2015); 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT; (203) 432-0600; artgallery.yale.edu