Indigenous art
Indigenous tribes will co-manage Utah’s long-contested Bears Ears National Monument
The governance and size of the monument have been disputed for years, and Utah Republicans are still trying to block president Biden's 2021 expansion of its boundaries
Art Gallery of Ontario unveils its first public art commission, an elephantine bronze by Brian Jungen
The massive sculpture, five years in the making, depicts a tragic circus elephant recreated out of trashed leather furniture
Midwestern man charged for illegally excavating Indigenous artefacts
The man and others excavated a densely concentrated archaeological site in the Harry S. Truman State Park in Missouri
Congolese artists mint NFTs to challenge US museum's ownership of indigenous sculpture
The pair have created NFTs of a sculpture made in the Congo but owned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in response to a disagreement over its loan
Artefacts long held by the Smithsonian will go on view at new Mi’ kmaw cultural centre in Nova Scotia
The $50m centre is scheduled to open in 2025 and showcase works on long-term loan from the National Museum of the American Indian
Canadian First Nation calls for portion of controversial $789m museum budget to be spent repatriating Indigenous artefacts
The province’s enormous expenditure to rebuild the Royal British Columbia Museum should include funding repatriation efforts, the Tseshaht First Nation says
New show in Los Angeles keeps an ancient culture alive by ‘nourishing’ its objects
An exhibition of Colombian ceramics and other artefacts at the Los Angeles Museum of Art was informed by advice from an Arhuaco spritual leader
Chippewa Abstract Expressionist artist George Morrison honoured with new set of US stamps
Morrison, whose work remained rooted in the landscape even as it evolved from figurative to quasi-Fauvist to Abstract Expressionist, was a pioneering figure in Native American modernism
An exhibition shines a light on pathbreaking Indigenous glass artists
‘Clearly Indigenous’ at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture looks at the myriad ways Indigenous artists have re-imagined traditional imagery and techniques in the uniquely pliable material
The Barnes Foundation exhumes its little-known Indigenous art collection
An exhibition tracks Albert C. Barnes’s brief but significant collecting spree of Native objects
Bittersweet triumph at Venice Biennale of late Indigenous artist Jaider Esbell
The Brazilian painter, sculptor, activist and writer killed himself last year
Sámi pavilion: the Nordic countries give their space to Indigenous artists from the European Arctic
The three exhibiting artists have dedicated themselves to “defending Sámi perspectives”
Indigenous artists highlight shared histories of abstraction and survival in the Whitney Biennial
The 2022 edition of the exhibition includes the work of four Indigenous artists from the US and Canada
'Native people are alive, not specimens or relics of the past': overdue retrospective honours Jean LaMarr’s groundbreaking work
The career-spanning exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art explores how the artist subverted categorisation in an era where Native art was still considered folkloric
Artist Faye HeavyShield receives one of Canada’s top art prizes
HeavyShield, who received the C$75,000 award from the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation and the Art Gallery of Ontario, creates Minimalist sculptures and installations
Jim Denomie, Ojibwe artist who painted the ‘raw realities of America’, has died, aged 66
At the time of his death, following a battle with cancer, Denomie was preparing for a major solo museum show in 2023
US revises law governing repatriation of Indigenous remains and burial objects
The effort, conducted in consultation with Native American tribes and nations, would enable greater enforcement of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Project chronicling Indigenous slavery receives $1.5m grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the three-year initiative to compile historical records and future projects related to the enslavement of Indigenous people in the US
National Gallery of Canada launches an Indigenous ways and decolonisation department
The new department, which pursue greater inclusivity and representation of Indigenous perspectives and art, will be led by Michelle LaVallee and Steven Loft
Native American activists call for return of artefacts from Scotland
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow acquired moccasins, a necklace and a child’s bonnet after the Wounded Knee Massacre
The Lenape diaspora, once on the brink of erasure, championed in New York exhibition
The show, the first-ever Lenape-curated exhibition profiling the tribes that inhabited the northeastern US coast, critiques the lack of scholarship and institutional focus on the Lenape people
Indigenous man allegedly fired for refusing to discard bones and artefacts unearthed at Texas construction site
The San Antonio-based chef and site manager was dismissed after being instructed to destroy the discoveries to avoid delaying the renovation of a restaurant
Artist Johnny Bandura’s mural of residential school victims becomes tool for teaching Canada’s colonial legacy
Through partnerships with universities and a forthcoming showcase at the Parliament of British Columbia, Bandura’s 215 portraits are educating Canadians young and old
The Met begins $70m renovation of African, ancient American and Oceanic art galleries
The galleries, housed in the Michael C. Rockefeller wing of the museum, will be modernised to better contextualise the collection and illustrate the ‘complex story of cultural development over the last 5,000 years’
Two artists face federal charges for faking Indigenous heritage
The Washington-based artists have been charged with claiming enrollment in Indigenous tribes, violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act
North American museums face a reckoning on Indigenous rights
An ongoing Indigenous protest movement is forcing museums across North America to confront a pressing question - who really owns the land on which they stand, and what should they do about it?
Sculptor and hereditary Haida chief James Hart wins one of Canada's top art prizes
Hart said receiving the C$100,000 ($80,000) Audain Prize is ‘part of the larger process of reconciliation’
Petition calls on Christie’s to return sacred Taino artefacts to Indigenous lands
Some artefacts in Christie’s Pre-Columbian Art & Taino Masterworks sale on 10 November in Paris are estimated to sell for up to £250,000
Inuit artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory wins Canada’s Sobey Art Award
The prize, Canada’s largest for contemporary art, represents a C$100,000 windfall for the winner
Vancouver Art Gallery will put largest-ever cash donation to a Canadian art museum toward new building
New gallery by Herzog & de Meuron to be built in Vancouver’s Larwill Park after consultation with artists from Indigenous groups