“Over thirty Yale students arrived in New York City on October 2nd for an invitation-only preview of the “Art of Native America” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Joined by hundreds of Met employees, Native American Studies scholars, Native artists, and curators from across North America, this opening was an unprecedented gathering that celebrated the extraordinary collection of Charles and Valerie Diker as the first permanent exhibition of Native American Art in the museum’s American Wing. Professor Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) served on the advisory committee and consulted with Met leaders about the format of the exhibition. He also wrote an article for the exhibition catalog entitled “The Radical Potential of America’s Indigenous Art History.’”
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