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Despite calls for a halt from US government officials and tribal leaders, EVE (Estimations Ventes aux Enchères) auction house went forward yesterday at Drouot Richelieu in Paris with a sale that included contested indigenous sacred objects and human remains.
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Bill Traylor's drawings and paintings were not recognized by the art world until decades after his death in 1949.
Art
WASHINGTON, DC — Kay WalkingStick has devoted herself to breaking down perceived dichotomies.
Art
WASHINGTON, DC — Each June in Huinchiri, Peru, four Quechua communities on two sides of a gorge join together to build a bridge out of grass, creating a form of ancient infrastructure that dates back at least five centuries to the Inca Empire.
Art
Too often museums exhibit indigenous art of the United States as artifacts made by ghosts, even though many of these traditions are still inspiring contemporary creators.
Art
Every city has its own sounds, its distinct murmur and roar of voices and traffic.
Art
WASHINGTON, DC — Much of science is observation, being attuned to what others overlook.
Art
Some of the best-known 19th-century ledger art was created by Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, and Caddo prisoners of war at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, following the Red River Wars.
Art
Beginning in 2006, Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo journeyed through 23 countries, documenting the one structure nearly every traveler arriving by air sees: the airport tower.
Art
Field books capture essential information for ecological history but are often difficult to track down in scientific collections.
Art
Active repatriation of indigenous remains in museums only gathered serious momentum in the 1980s.
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The question of whether or not art museums should be free tends to get people riled up.