The excellent catalog by the show's original co-curators, Tim Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld and Alison Smith, includes important essays, copious illustrations and highly detailed captions for each work (including those not brought to Washington).

WSJ: Victorian Avant-Garde | Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design | National Gallery of Art | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

The exhibition's co-curators the Filipino anthropologist Corazon Alvina and the Quai Branly's Constance de Monbrison haven't shied away from representing the archipelago's ancient and controversial head-hunter culture through a collection of painted shields and long throwing spears.

WSJ: Review: Island Treasure | 'Philippines: An Archipelago of Exchange' at the Mus??e du Quai Branly in Paris