A Different Kind of Futurism
Kali Spitzer reclaims historical photography in her recent exhibition “An Exploration of Resilience and Resistance”—and reveals a queer Indigenous future
You Want Our Art but Not Our People
Dressed in regalia to support their kin at the 2019 Whitney Biennial opening, a group of NDNs experience art-world militarization first-hand
Sonny Assu: A Selective History
A new book shows why Assu doesn’t blink an eye at “defacing” some of Canada’s most treasured artworks
Who Benefits from the Indigenous Art Biennial?
A look at the 4th BACA biennial reveals the difference between working in Indigenous ways, and working in Indigenous art—and Niki Little and Becca Taylor’s resolve to curate to and for their sisters
What Do We Mean by Queer Indigenous Ethics?
Billy-Ray Belcourt and Lindsay Nixon discuss the ways in which queer and trans Indigenous folks enact another kind of art and theory.
Maybe There’ll Be a Better Tomorrow: A Conversation with Shelley Niro
As her career retrospective debuts in Toronto, Shelley Niro sits down to talk about Indigenous femininities, picking berries, and the sometimes-tricky ratio between darkroom work and family time
Art in 2017: A View from Turtle Island
Strong exhibitions in Winnipeg, Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto highlight an Indigenous critic’s year-end bests.
We Lost an Entire Generation
Indigenous peoples remain ghettoized within, and largely absent from, what is often considered to be AIDS art.
Nation to Nation
Remembering “Native Love,” an exhibition that confronted the warrior rhetoric surrounding the Oka Crisis through concepts of love, sensuality and care.
Rebecca Belmore Wants Us to Listen to the Land
Twenty-six years ago, artist Rebecca Belmore prompted Canadians to speak to the land. Now, her newest artwork urges us to listen to it.
This Work Is Not for You
“This issue is a love letter to all my fierce and fabulous relations—my NDN baby girls, women or otherwise—who ground their work in kinship teachings.”
Making Space in Indigenous Art for Bull Dykes and Gender Weirdos
It’s about time for the Indigenous art canon to create a space for gender-variant and sexually diverse voices. They’ve been mostly excluded for decades.
