Art Review
Indigenous Art History Has Been Waiting for You to Catch Up
The late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s final curatorial salvo — the largest show of Native American art to date — carries an elegiac weight, but also thrums with life.
Indigenous Art
Art
An Indigenous Modernist Artist Finally Gets Her Due
An exhibition at The Met celebrates the work of self-taught artist Mary Sully, who neither exhibited nor profited from her work during her lifetime.
Art
From the Ruins of the Past, Indigenous Artists Fashion New Futures
Future Imaginaries gathers work by a range of Native artists who are wielding fashion, technology, and sci-fi to carry ancestral knowledge forward.
Art
Meet the People Cultivating the Indigenous Art of Puppetry
The inaugural Indigenous Puppetry Institute saw the convening of contemporary practitioners of a form practiced for centuries.
Art
The Ohlone Basket Weaver Who Revived a Rumsen Artistic Tradition
Linda Yamane taught herself the intricate and nearly extinct craft over 100 years after the last Rumsen basketmakers died.
Art
Native Art Collection Gets a Much-Needed Rehang at Montclair Art Museum
In Interwoven Power, the museum achieves a sorely needed curatorial feat: an institutional display of Indigenous art that courses with vitality.
Art
Rachel Martin Serves Up a Communal Meal of Art
Martin's capacity to weave cultural traditions together in her distinctive artistic voice translates into inventive drawings that center the joy of communing, confiding, and sharing meals.
Art
A Living History of Indigenous Graphic Design
In his essays, exhibition, and video, Hyperallergic Fellow Brian Johnson sheds light on the overlooked history of Indigenous graphic arts.
Art
Fritz Scholder’s Art of Non-Belonging
Scholder, who called himself a "non-Indian Indian," refused to conform to expectations and rejected limiting definitions of his identity as Native American.
Opinion
Why Native Artists Are Reclaiming the Whirling Log
The Diné symbol was suppressed for decades by a settler-dominated art market that conflated it with the Nazi insignia.
News
Alex Janvier, Indigenous Painter of Evocative Abstractions, Dies at 89
The artist and residential school survivor created vivid works that meld Denesuline iconography with modern and contemporary styles.
Books
Thomas Cole’s Landscape Painting Through an Indigenous Lens
Unlike European Christian notions regarding human dominion over all of creation, the Haudenosaunee belief is that our relationship with the earth is one of responsibilities.