With the great spring fairs behind it, July settled into the rhythm of the museum season, the months when blockbuster exhibitions, rather than auctions and fairs, define where the art world is looking.

Oceania is the world's ocean continent, a scattering of islands and one great southern landmass bound together by water, and it holds both the oldest living art on earth and some of its newest voices.

Ten performers who filled the theaters of the 1940s to 1960s with unaided voice and turned the American musical into Broadway's golden age.

Ten voices, from a Blasket Island seanchaí to a Harlem street poet, who carried the world's stories through a century that kept trying to silence them.

Ten pairs of hands, from the bunraku stage to the television studio, that taught the modern world how to believe in a puppet again.

Ten performers and showmen who turned the traveling circus, from the 1870s to the 1970s, into the greatest show on earth, one impossible feat at a time.