A month-long exhibition features six artists who address the untold stories missing from the national park.
Wendy Red Star
What Can Art Do for Women?
A group show of women artists at The Contemporary Austin addresses the weight and urgency of the current political moment.
Wendy Red Star’s Empowered Vision of Crow History
One of Red Star’s many strengths is her ability to examine both the past and what’s still to come.
Wendy Red Star Is Teaching Children About the Crow Nation With Her Art
“You don’t have to make things easy for them,” says Red Star about her new exhibition for children at MASS MoCA.
Channeling the Nuances of Motherhood Into Art
The debut exhibition at New Mexico State University explores the nuances of labor — in birth, in childrearing, and in intergenerational collaboration.
Artists Find Power in Erasure
In Otherwise Obscured, effacement, redaction, and illegibility are positioned as tactics that artists can employ to combat, highlight, or heal sociopolitical invisibility.
An Attempt to Redefine Feminist Art Has Some Surprises
With over 125 pieces on view, Half the Picture could have been refined, showing fewer works without compromising its curatorial punch.
A Museum Gains Prominence Through Collecting Native American Artists’ Work
A gem of a museum in Ohio known for European masterpieces, gains contemporary relevance.
Headless Trophies for Our Cultural Decadence
PORTLAND, Oregon — What can a herd of headless deer painted gold with gaudy tinsel tails teach the 1% and the rest of us? The answer is a lot.
Three Native American Artists Challenge a White Ethnographer’s Legacy
PORTLAND, Ore. — If you type the words “Native American” into Google image search, the majority of the results will be Edward Curtis photographs
A Century of Indigenous Printmaking in North America
OKLAHOMA CITY — With nearly 100 prints from artists around North America, Enter the Matrix: Indigenous Printmakers at the University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones. Jr. Museum of Art (FJJMA) celebrates the medium’s rise in the 20th century.
Rethinking American Indian Influence on Bushwick Art
My recent article on Bushwick Open Studios for Hyperallergic tried to discuss the influence of American Indian spirituality on the new age symbolism that I saw in many art works. However, the article didn’t capture this fraught process of appropriation and commodification well enough.