Art
“The World I Wish People Knew”: Photographer Cara Romero on Redefining Contemporary Native art
This year, Romero will be installing photographs of California’s Indigenous peoples on billboards and public places throughout Los Angeles.
Native American Art
News
The Metropolitan Museum Hires Its First Full-Time Curator of Native American Art
The appointment of Patricia Marroquin Norby is a historic milestone for the museum, which decided to display Indigenous art in its American Wing for the first time in 2017.
News
UC Berkeley Has Only Returned 20% of Its Native American Artifacts and Remains
The University of California and campuses, including Berkeley, failed to comply with laws for returning stolen objects and remains, according to a new California auditor report.
Books
The Unique Legacy of an American Indian Modernist
Mary Sully's artwork reflects her cultural moment, but it is also as a blueprint for rewriting history to include marginalized perspectives.
News
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.”
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Film
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.
News
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.