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Indigenous People's Day

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

‘ENCODED’ is not intended as a protest but as a precise act of cultural negotiation—a strategic use of technology through which artists can reassert Indigenous presence in American art and history.
By Elisa Carollo

Ahead of Columbus Day, the Roosevelt Statue Uptown Has Been Doused in Red Paint

The New York City Public Design Commission unanimously voted to take down the statue this summer.
By Helen Holmes
Mayor Bill de Blasio marching in the October 2014 Columbus Day parade.

De Blasio’s Commission to Review NYC Statues Holds First Meeting

A commission the mayor formed to study the city's statues and monuments is meeting amid debate over whether Columbus statues should remain.
By Madina Toure
Mayor Bill de Blasio marches during the Columbus Day Parade.

De Blasio Booed While Marching in Columbus Day Parade

By Madina Toure
#DecolonizeThisPlace protestors cover the Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the American Museum of Natural History on October 10, 2016.

Anti-Columbus Day Group Protests Roosevelt Statue, Iran’s Ancient Ties to Japan

By Alanna Martinez
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