Series IX in gorgeous array...
Celebrate poetry and the archive with us, and look for Series IX--available tonight and soon elsewhere.
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North American Indigenous arts are expressions of deep cultural traditions as diverse as the lands with which they are inextricably linked. Christopher Green provides a crash course with five key texts that survey the subject. https://t.co/htUftNtrJe
Jeffrey Gibson will represent the US at the next Venice Biennale, becoming the first-ever Indigenous artist to do the country's pavilion: https://t.co/E5gL9bbgtA
Sharjah Biennial 15 presents a selection from Kimowan Metchewais’ eclectic personal archive of Polaroids. Spanning two decades of the artist’s career, from the end of the 1990s to his passing in 2011, the works are on view at Old Al Dhaid Clinic.
Book at https://t.co/StRSnXXYaX
Join me, @WendyRedStar and Rebecca Trautmann to discuss the book and Kimowan's exceptional life and work @aperturefnd on April 25! https://t.co/Cmc851AzHJ
But the new additions of Yanomami drawings, paintings, and films - an emergent Indigenous modernism - balance Andujar's most ethnographic impulses; more in the review!
I wrote about the tensions that abound when an exoticizing lens is deployed in support of Amazonian survival in "The Yanomami Struggle" at the Shed - and how Indigenous visualities redeem https://t.co/fLoYuWH3XS
While visually resplendent, Andujar’s visual pleasure in her photographs of the Yanomami - including funerary rituals and bundles of human remains, described as attempts to “share her fascination with a non-Indigenous audience” - is uncomfortable.
RIP Peter Schjeldahl, deeply sorry to learn that his break through review of Oscar Howe - a stellar moment of recognition for Indigenous modernism - was one of his last. There would have been more to come, I am sure of it.
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"A lot of the work is about finding your way, as if we’re jumping into the abyss." —Athena LaTocha
Time Signatures: @AthenaLaTocha Interviewed by Christopher Green
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"[Soil from Green-Wood cemetery] is also some of the last undisturbed soil from an earlier epoch. “Where else can you get earth from predevelopment time?” she said." On the amazing and concurrent projects from Athena LaTocha's in the NYC area:
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I sent upper level undergrads to go see/write about the Barbara Kruger show @artinstitutechi and a *majority* assumed (explicitly stated) that Kruger must be making an intentional formal reference to Supreme as an aspect of her social/commercial/medial critiques