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Stone sculpture of the Mississippian period depicting a chunkey player

Sculptural Pipes and Sacred Materials in the Mi...

With polished, ruddy hues and two piercing, wide eyes, the sculptural pipe known to archaeologists as “Big Boy” commands attention. Excavated from a mortuary context at the site of Spiro...

Sculptural Pipes and Sacred Materials in the Mi...

With polished, ruddy hues and two piercing, wide eyes, the sculptural pipe known to archaeologists as “Big Boy” commands attention. Excavated from a mortuary context at the site of Spiro...

Online: wä dé

Online: wä dé

With its mix of black and white studio shots, vintage color analog prints, and film stills and recordings, wä dé is a visual archive of Sub-Saharan Africa that comes to life before...

Online: wä dé

With its mix of black and white studio shots, vintage color analog prints, and film stills and recordings, wä dé is a visual archive of Sub-Saharan Africa that comes to life before...

To Take Space: “Six Continents or More”

To Take Space: “Six Continents or More”

“Six Continents or More” is what one might call a patchwork of artistic imaginations. Designed as a season, this mega-exhibition that brings together six individual shows provides space for artists...

To Take Space: “Six Continents or More”

“Six Continents or More” is what one might call a patchwork of artistic imaginations. Designed as a season, this mega-exhibition that brings together six individual shows provides space for artists...

Nikorima by Isaiah Karaitiana

Nikorima by Isaiah Karaitiana

Masterfully combining studded textures with smooth surfaces and warm wood with glistening inlays, the works of Nikorima, by artist Isaiah Karaitiana, seem to move organically under the shifting natural light....

Nikorima by Isaiah Karaitiana

Masterfully combining studded textures with smooth surfaces and warm wood with glistening inlays, the works of Nikorima, by artist Isaiah Karaitiana, seem to move organically under the shifting natural light....

Giving Back: Community Projects and Restitution in the Pacific Northwest

Giving Back: Community Projects and Restitution...

Donald Ellis, a renowned Canadian art dealer who founded his gallery of historical Native American art almost five decades ago, has long been confronting some of the issues that plague...

Giving Back: Community Projects and Restitution...

Donald Ellis, a renowned Canadian art dealer who founded his gallery of historical Native American art almost five decades ago, has long been confronting some of the issues that plague...

Close-up of a celestial dancer (devata), stone medieval sculpture

This Is Not a Sculpture: Displaying Indian Reli...

The collection of medieval Indian works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York includes a captivating figure of a celestial dancer, or devata, who seems entirely freed from...

This Is Not a Sculpture: Displaying Indian Reli...

The collection of medieval Indian works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York includes a captivating figure of a celestial dancer, or devata, who seems entirely freed from...