More Than Just a Milestone: the National Gallery’s First Show of Contemporary Native American Art in 70 Years
about 6 months ago (11/17/2023)
Review: A Landmark Show of Native American Art at the National Gallery – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Alex Greenberger Plus Icon Alex Greenberger Senior Editor, ARTnews View All November 17, 2023 8:34am Steven Yazzie, Orchestrating a Blooming Desert , 2003. ©2003 Steven J. Yazzie/Photo Craig Smith/Courtesy Heard Museum A quiet revolution is taking place within the walls of the National Gallery of Art , where a group of nearly 50 Native American artists has assembled to expose the land that constitutes Washington, D. C.—and most other parts of this country—as stolen. On the top floor of the museum’s East Building, visitors to the special exhibition galleries encounter Native Host for Washington, D. C. (2022), a sculpture by Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho).