Mary Sully’s artwork reflects her cultural moment, but it is also as a blueprint for rewriting history to include marginalized perspectives.
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100 Pieces of Tewa Pottery Returned to Their Ancestral Home in the Rio Grande Valley
“I think they’re very eager to return,” said Lonnie Vigil of Nambé Pueblo, “and so are we to have them back.”
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The Undersung Art of Native American Women, Front and Center
Inside a years-long effort to show a millennium’s worth of art by Native American women.
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The Artistic Achievements of Native Americans Through the Ages
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s series of talks and tours on Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection helps visitors better contextualize artwork by Indigenous creators across the centuries.
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An Uncanny Mountain Monument Is the Focus of an Outsider Artist for Half a Century
As outsider art goes, you can’t get much further outside than Thunder Mountain Monument, built by Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder over many years, starting in 1969.
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The Exciting Native American Film Program at This Year’s Whitney Biennial
At Yale Union, visitors can preview the films Sky Hopinka has curated for the Biennial.
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World’s Largest Native American Art Forgery Ring Distributed $12M of Fakes
The US government attorney supports 18-month sentences and fines for the accused, but in many ways the damage is done, casting both real and fake Native American artworks into doubt.
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Dancers, Artists, and Activists Reclaim Space at the First United Lenape Nations Pow Wow
Lenape community members, in partnership with Park Avenue Armory, host the first Lenape pow wow in Manhattan since their forced displacement in the 1700s.
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37 Artists Native to the Americas Weave Stories of Migration and Geography
In a time of bald-faced white supremacy and discrimination, the Nebraska exhibition Monarchs feels vitally relevant.
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As Dakota Access Pipeline Leaks, Native Artists Examine Contested Landscapes
In My Country Tis of Thy People, You’re Dying, artists grapple with forcible resource extraction on indigenous lands.
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For the First Time, Metropolitan Museum Will Display Indigenous Art in Its American Wing
With a major promised gift of 91 works of Native American art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will now include indigenous art in its galleries on American art.
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Native Women Share Stories and Songs at the Whitney Museum
On March 5, indigenous women creators will gather to celebrate the role of art in their fight for environmental and cultural justice.