Hessel Museum of Art

"The curator Candice Hopkins has united more than 100 works from Indigenous artists throughout the United States and Canada to explain the historical role that performance has played in Indigenous culture. She argues that performance has often served as a political tool for building solidarity and fostering empathy, protesting injustice and critiquing power. The survey at Bard’s Hessel Museum of Art brings viewers through the feminist movement of the 1970s to other contemporary practices with commissions from artists like Nicholas Galanin and Jeffrey Gibson. The artist Rebecca Belmore blankets the museum’s facade with symbols that question America’s history of colonialism and territorial claims.
“It is a groundbreaking overview of Native American contemporary practice,” said the gallerist Alexander Gray, who visited the exhibition earlier in its run. “Truly not to be missed.”"