52 TABA NABA Monaco—Taba Naba is a traditional children’s song of the peoples of the Torres Strait that celebrates the sea. It is also the name of a large-scale exhibition which has been on view since March 24 at the Musée Océanographique de Monaco that examines the themes of oceans and water in Oceanic and Australian Aboriginal art. The installation is in three parts, each curated by its own specialist, which examines the respect for the oceans which is common to all Pacifi c cultures, and also holds it up as a model to be followed. Curated by Laurent Jacob, the fi rst part of the show presents six monumental installations created by fi fty Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists to express their concern over the pollution of the oceans. The second part consists of some 150 artifacts drawn from the Didier Zanette Collection. The third is made up of a selection of contemporary Australian Aboriginal paintings from the Sordello Missana Collection, as well as of paintings in which water is the subject matter drawn from the personal collection of His Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco. HOMAGE TO JACQUES CHIRAC Paris—From June 21 until October 9, 2016, the Musée du Quai Branly’s East Gallery will be the setting for an exhibition dedicated to Jacques Chirac, the man who can be seen as the prime mover for the creation of this institution, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Under the supervision of Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Minister of Culture during the Chirac presidency, working with Guillaume Picon, Jacques Chirac ou le dialogue des cultures (Jacques Chirac, or the Dialog of Cultures) will be more than an homage to Chirac’s passion for tribal art. Instead it will paint a private and public cultural portrait of this man’s profound receptiveness to and sensitivity for the process of Europe’s gradually understanding the world’s non-European cultures, which unfolded throughout the twentieth century. More than 150 works selected from private and public collections in France and elsewhere relate to some sixty dates corresponding to political high points, exhibitions, publications, and experiences that were major events in Chirac’s life, as well as in history, and especially in the recognition of non-European cultures. The result is a notto be-missed overview of the story of a political, cultural, and intimate dialog with other cultures that transcended past harms and represented the wish to herald in a future in which world peace would prevail. ABOVE CENTER: Poster for the exhibition at the Musée Océanographique of Monaco. LEFT: Alick Tipoti, Dugong, Kisay Dhangal, 2015. © Alick Tipoti. Photo: Roger D’Souza Photography, Australian Art Network. TOP LEFT: Female fi gure. Chupícuaro, Mexico. 600 BC–AD 200. Terracotta, colored slip. © MQB. Photo: Patrick Gries. TOP CENTER: Reliquary guardian fi gure. Fang, Gabon. 19th century. Wood. © MQB. Photo: Patrick Gries. LEFT: Feather headdress. Sioux, United States. 20th century. Feathers, down, beads. © MQB. Photo: Claude Germain.
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