CONTEMPORARY Canadian art is as complex and controversial as the country itself: multicultural, bilingual, and perhaps subject to more diverse pressures than any other nation. Mercifully, however, the ...
What is Indigenous art today? Many viable answers await at this year’s edition of Art Toronto (until 26 October), where more than half of the 121 participating exhibitors feature works by Indigenous ...
Canada Goose may be a luxury parka brand, but it has big ambitions when it comes to acquiring Canadian art. Walruses appear frequently in the folklore of the Inuit people, who have inhabited Northern ...
While artists are busy crafting new works and joining the wider world of art, scam artists wait in the wings to steal their concepts. There are establishments where fans of Native art can feel ...
For years, Native art in Colorado has been pushed into the corners: a special section of the museum, a mural people pass on the way to baggage claim, or a textbook inset wedged between Manifest ...
Already a member? Sign in here. America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made a ...
Whether in a somber National Portrait Gallery performance or in her wry takes on Native humor, Anna Tsouhlarakis follows her heart Anna Tsouhlarakis was a self-described “math and science nerd” in ...
Once overlooked, but no more. Art by modern Indigenous American artists is getting more attention these days. And one new project has found a way to push the movement further forward. Jeffrey Brown ...
At San Francisco’s de Young, an Indigenous team of scholars and artists is rethinking the display of Native objects and helping to rebuild fraught community ties ...
It’s not hard to find a blanket or throw pillow at a major retailer that echoes the style of Native art. However, that doesn’t mean the product has any connection to a Native American artist. “For the ...