Art
Marie Watt Invites You to Hug a Jingle Cloud
Touch is at the core of Watt’s latest body of work, featuring hanging metal sculptures that echo the energy and spirit of a Native powwow.
Erin Joyce
News
Artists Decry “Censorship” of Shepard Fairey Anti-Police Artwork
The city of Mesa canceled a series of shows of political street art just weeks after the museum refused to withdraw Fairey’s work depicting a police officer in riot gear.
Art
Raven Halfmoon's Monuments to Mothers
Sculpting voluptuous figures with richly dynamic surfaces creates a shared humanity between Halfmoon, the artwork, and the viewer.
Interview
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith on Her Life’s Journey in Art
“In this long journey, it is step by step, hand over hand, something like climbing a rope,” she tells Hyperallergic in an interview.
Performance
Bobby Wilson Combats Indigenous Stereotypes Through Humor
The artist-performer's career undulates, ever so gracefully, across multiple mediums and registers of generational pain, healing laughter, and Indigenous joy.
Art
Some Important Questions About Artist Legacies
How is legacy defined, who defines it, whom does it serve?
Film
Sky Hopinka Is Tired of Explaining Everything to Non-Natives
The filmmaker and visual artist tells stories that speak directly to Native audiences while not over-explaining meaning for non-Native viewers.
Art
Phillip K. Smith III Shows His True Colors
The artist’s site-specific museum exhibition Three Parallels glows with choreographed colored light.
Art
Nazafarin Lotfi Dreams Up a Borderless Future
The artist wedges a sharp critique, and in many ways, erodes the foundations on which borders are built.
Art
Architected Futures and Reimagined Pasts
Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez’s artistic collaborations center experiences of gender, queerness, and race.
Art
Cara Romero Stands Defiant Against Institutional Categorization
The artist’s photographs shine a light on the unseen, resisting colonial categorization and institutional biases around art made by Native artists.
Art
Tyrrell Tapaha’s Fresh Approach to Pictorial Navajo Textiles
Diné fiber artist and sixth-generation weaver Tyrrell Tapaha expands lived experience and ideas about the future.