On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we look at some American museums and how they have acknowledged the occupied land they sit on.
On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we look at some American museums and how they have acknowledged the occupied land they sit on. In other stories, we visit the Montclair Art Museum’s rehung Native art collection and spotlight the work of Ohlone basket weaver Linda Yamane. Also today: What turned a middle-class mom into a presidential assassin? And much more. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | | Some Indigenous scholars have come to regard the standard land acknowledgment as “hollow” and “not enough.” | Rhea Nayyar |
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REHANGS & REVIVALS | | | | In Interwoven Power, the museum achieves a sorely needed curatorial feat: an institutional display of Indigenous art that courses with vitality. | Greta Rainbow |
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| | | | Linda Yamane taught herself the intricate and nearly extinct craft over 100 years after the last Rumsen basketmakers died. | Isa Farfan |
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| PAINTERS IN FOCUS | | | | The artist explores and envisions fire as both violence and resurrection, from the ecstasy of heat-sparked bodies to the agony of a world ablaze in the throes of empire. | Rebecca Goyette |
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| | | | Each work in Wynter’s show is a reflection of someone in the artist’s chosen family, the sort of person with whom he could share a soulful meal. | AX Mina |
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| MORE ON HYPERALLEGIC | | | | On Wednesday, October 9, Hyperallergic celebrated its birthday with food, music, dancing, and performances that no one there will ever forget. |
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| | | | Suburban Fury sits with Sara Jane Moore to learn how the politics and culture of the 1970s drove her toward Gerald Ford with a gun in her hand. | Dan Schindel |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | | Land acknowledgment without action is an empty gesture, exculpatory and self-serving. | Joseph M. Pierce |
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| | | Take a stroll to another world in these Paul Klee-inspired socks, which take their design from his largest work, the mysterious “Insula dulcamara” (1938).
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