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Indigenous Art

In Jeffrey Gibson’s “An Indigenous Present,” Native Art Beyond Representationalism

The show’s cross-generational pairings surface the institutional separations that kept Native artists from forming the kinds of networks modernism took for granted.
By Petala Ironcloud
A video still of a women in an orange room lazing on the floor and gazing into a mirror

One Fine Show: “The Stars We Do Not See, Australian Indigenous Art” at the National Gallery of Art

This exhibition offers work drawn from under-shown traditions but offers broad context to visitors who take seriously its advice about stepping outside of the self.
By Dan Duray
Rember Yahuarcani’s vivid nocturnal composition where human, insect, and animal forms merge in motion across glowing red and violet bands, evoking mythic continuities between earthly and spiritual realms.

Rember Yahuarcani On Wielding Paint as a Tool of Cultural Preservation and Resistance

Drawing on ancestral memory, sacred plant knowledge, jungle sounds and mythology, his work preserves Indigenous wisdom while translating it through the lens of contemporary art for a world in need of its lessons.
By Elisa Carollo
A 19th-century Hudson River School landscape painting in an ornate gold frame is overlaid with a ghostly white Indigenous figure made of fringe and horns, visually interrupting the idyllic scene. To the right, a neoclassical marble bust of a white man stands on a pedestal, creating a stark historical contrast between the colonial canon and Indigenous intervention.

Indigenous Artists Use AR to Rewrite the Narrative in the Met’s American Wing

By Elisa Carollo
A rough-textured bronze bust of a man with a gaunt, elongated face and hollow eyes, emerging from a heavily worked base that blurs into his shoulders.

Christie’s Secures Another Major Consignment in Max Berry’s Encyclopedic Art Collection

By Elisa Carollo
A large canvas featuring a bold geometric pattern in black on beige, composed of interlocking shapes and maze-like motifs in a symmetrical design.

Sara Flores and the Shipibo Community’s Journey from the Amazon to the Venice Biennale

By Elisa Carollo
D’Lan Davidson stands between two abstract pink and black line paintings at his gallery, arms crossed and facing the camera.

From Boom-and-Bust to Global Rise: Understanding Aboriginal Art’s Market Revival

By Elisa Carollo
Interior of a house with a sculpture on a pedestal and a msk sciulpture on the wall.

Inside the Gochman Family Collection of Indigenous Contemporary Art

By Elisa Carollo
This is a portrait photograph of a woman with long, dark hair wearing a dark blue garment with a light blue collar. She has a calm and confident expression, with a slight smile, and the clean white background accentuates her face and upper body.

Indigenous Futurism, Place and Kinship: An Interview with Crystal Bridges’ Jordan Poorman Cocker

By Dan Duray
Image of a colorful painting with animals and snakes.

‘Sell Painting, Buy Land’: MAHKU Brings Voices of Indigenous Resistance to Art Basel Miami Beach

By Elisa Carollo
A photo of a woman with curly dark hair and glasses, wearing a vibrant orange, pink, and black patterned jumpsuit, leaning casually against a white wall. The setting is indoors, and the lighting highlights her confident and approachable demeanor. This is likely Laura Allen, a curator, based on the context.

Building Exhibitions Around Shared Ideas: An Interview With Curator Laura Allen

By Christa Terry
Painting of people emerging from the water

How Denver Art Museum Is Looping Indigenous Communities into Its Program

By Elisa Carollo
A formline-inspired image of a woman with no shirt on doing a backbend

Rachel Martin Is ‘Bending The Rules’ at Hannah Traore Gallery

By Petala Ironcloud
Image of a dark room with floating white documents.

The Largest-Ever Survey of Indigenous Australian Art Is Coming to the U.S.

By Elisa Carollo
Painting of a nude oman with a man in her belly and talking with a bird

What to Expect from This Year’s Independent 20th Century Fair

By Elisa Carollo
A painting depicting marble statues cannibalizing themselves

How Artist Andrea Carlson Heals Landscapes By Dismantling and Reassembling Them

By Noah Berlatsky
A collage of a two pieces of Indigenous art and a man in a green tie crossing his arms

Yasufumi Nakamori On Aboriginal Art Coming to the Asia Society Museum

By Elisa Carollo

Where to See Art Created and Curated Via Indigenous Perspectives

By Alicia Erickson
Colorful beaded moccasins in a glass case

One Fine Show: ‘Bodies of Water’ at the Baltimore Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
Woman looks at artwork displayed on white wall

With a New Model, Forge Project Is Putting Indigenous Art at the Forefront

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Man wearing glasses and black shirt stands in front of luminescent blue background

Refik Anadol on A.I., Algorithms and the Amazon

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Black and white image of Norval Morrisseau sitting at a desk, painting canvas laid out in front of him

Canadian Police Make Arrests in ‘Biggest Art Fraud in World History’

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

A Cave Filled With Native American Art Has Been Sold to an Anonymous Buyer

By Helen Holmes
Mound B from Atop Mound A (Great Temple Mound), Etowah Mounds, Near Cartersville, Georgiaca. 1250 CEThis black and white photograph by Tom Pattonshows one of many large Mississippian period mound centers that dotted the landscape of eastern North America before European contact.

Exhibition Reveals Stories of America’s Very Own Ancient Earthworks

By Alanna Martinez
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