SAN DIEGO — “Just look at the noses,” says Los Angeles collector Valerie Franklin, approaching a display of Melanesian masks at the San Diego Museum of Art. One resembles a sharply pointed ...

The seventh Melanesian Arts and Culture Festival (MACFEST), which was postponed due to the pandemic, has returned to the Pacific region and spirits are high. Melanesia is a subregion of the ...

“Just look at the noses,” says Los Angeles collector Valerie Franklin, approaching a display of Melanesian masks at the San Diego Museum of Art. One resembles a sharply pointed beak, another ...