Indigenous art
Brazil reflects on ‘five centuries of invasion’ with all-Indigenous Venice pavilion
Artists focus on the legacy of colonialism and the ongoing challenges their people face
US pavilion features first Indigenous artist to have solo show
Jeffrey Gibson mixes Native American motifs with modern materials to investigate issues of identity and history
Tate's new Indigenous art fund taps into theme of Venice Biennale
Project opens with four-year backing from AKO Foundation to acquire Sámi and Inuit art from Northern Europe
A major squawk-ing point: Māori parrot-feather cloak set to be star exhibit at Perth Museum
Following painstaking conservation, the delicate piece will go on show at the Scottish museum in its newly opened building, a £27m conversion of the Edwardian former city hall
Neon work in Whitney Biennial features unexpected ‘free Palestine’ message
The biennial’s curators were unaware of the statement in a work by Demian DinéYazhi’ prior to the exhibition preview
16 new archaeological sites identified in Brazil’s Tocantins state
Newly discovered rock art, including human and animal footprints, is thought to have been created 2,000 years ago
Eight artists and curators receive Canada’s Governor General’s Award
This year’s winners of the prestigious Canadian honour include the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona and Saskatchewan-based curator Michelle Jacques
‘The things we make are time machines’: Cannupa Hanska Luger on his PST Art exhibitions
In three exhibitions in Southern California this September the artist imagines future worlds for Indigenous peoples — and allows children to create their own world with Velcro
Ekow Eshun on the power of Black figuration and his new London show
Plus, 100 years of the Surrealist manifesto and Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance
Fondation Cartier strengthens partnership with Sydney Biennale and appoints new First Nations curatorial fellow
The celebrated Australian Indigenous artist Tony Albert has been named as the inaugural recipient of the fellowship
Phillips's selling show of contemporary Indigenous art reflects surge in curatorial interest
Collectors’ enthusiastic response to 'New Terrains' exhibition is latest signal that the market is finally catching up
A new wave: spate of UK exhibitions signal growing recognition for Inuit and Sámi art
Shows in London, Southampton and St Ives are introducing a wider audience to the work of artists from the far north
Second curator of Indigenous art departs the Art Gallery of Ontario amid ongoing scandal
Taqralik Partridge, an associate curator of Indigenous art since 2022, has stepped down while the Toronto institution is still reeling from the sudden ouster of Wanda Nanibush
Artists, writers and cultural workers sign open letters criticising Art Gallery of Ontario over departure of Indigenous art curator
Wanda Nanibush's departure has been linked to a leaked letter accusing her of “posting inflammatory, inaccurate rants against Israel”
Inuvialuk artist Kablusiak wins Canada’s top art prize
The 2023 Sobey Art Award went to the Calgary-based artist, who is known for her wide-ranging, multidisciplinary approach that incorporates and reimagines Inuk traditions
Rashid Johnson and Dyani White Hawk make new works for Whitney Museum restaurants
The museum's revamped dining areas include lush installations by Johnson and White Hawk that blend interior and exterior spaces
Extreme drought in the Amazon reveals ancient rock carvings
The carvings, which resemble expressive human faces, may be up to 2,000 years old
Ahead of major Indigenous rights vote in Australia, Desert Mob Aboriginal art fair welcomes collectors to the Outback
The event, one of the most remote art festivals in the world, features more than 280 artists
Canadian Museum of History acquires artist’s memorial to victims of the country’s residential schools
Stanley C. Hunt’s memorial monument features carvings of 130 faces, representing Indigenous children whose remains were found in unmarked graves near a school site
Lakota artist Dana Claxton, whose work subverts assumptions about Indigenous identity, wins one of Canada’s top art prizes
The Audain Prize, given annually to an artist based in British Columbia, comes with a C$100,000 cash prize
Indigenous artists in the spotlight at this year’s Armory Show
The fair's Focus section, curated this year by Candice Hopkins, includes strong representation of Native American and First Nations artists
Tate hires new curators dedicated to Indigenous art and the climate
Both posts are part of an initative to redefine the institution's “existing collection of art and offer new perspectives on global art histories”
Indigenous collective’s ‘World’s UnFair’ in New York imagines a decolonised future
New Red Order’s Long Island City project turns the models of past World’s Fairs on their heads
When Native American art merged with New York abstraction
A show on the early days of the Institute of American Indian Arts explores the fusing of Native American ancestral aesthetics with mainstream Modernist movements
Germany returns two Indigenous masks to Colombia after more than a century
During their time in Berlin, the two sacred masks were treated with a pesticide that may still be dangerous
After sudden closure, Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts reopens
The art and film space had seemingly closed permanently in April, but community donations will allow its cinema to resume operations
An overdue retrospective for an artist in touch with America’s dark ‘underbelly’
Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has been transforming the contemporary art canon for decades with multilayered works that address cultural misconceptions with humour
National Gallery of Australia investigates whether Indigenous artists had ‘creative control’ over works in new exhibition
An independent review will assess allegations that white studio staff painted on canvases attributed to leading Aboriginal artists
The mystic and the Modernist: Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian
We explore the Tate Modern exhibition. Plus, the Whitney's Jaune Quick-to-See Smith retrospective and a reconstructed Roman gateway in England
Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Arts closes permanently despite last-minute fundraising effort
The New Mexico institution, established in 1979, has shut its doors, seemingly forever