#How Kent Monkman’s alter ego is challenging colonial history

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“How Kent Monkman’s alter ego is challenging colonial history” Through the lens of his glamorous alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, artist Kent Monkman amends the historical record. The Cree artist Kent Monkman has a striking alter ego: Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, a time-travelling, shapeshifting, gender-fluid agent of imagination who appears in many of his…

#Canada’s museums are slowly starting to return Indigenous artifacts

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“#Canada’s museums are slowly starting to return Indigenous artifacts” After surviving European incursions, colonialism and a 500-km journey from its home, a 171-year-old beaded hood must wait a bit longer before it can go back to Eeyou Istchee, James Bay Cree territory in northern Quebec. The pandemic has a way of interrupting plans—especially those involving…

#Dana Claxton’s ‘Lasso’ layers Lakota aesthetics, hip hop culture and the Wild West

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“#Dana Claxton’s ‘Lasso’ layers Lakota aesthetics, hip hop culture and the Wild West” The Hunkpapa Lakota artist’s subversive and playful work confronts stereotypes of Indigenous people in popular culture Dana Claxton, Lasso, 2018, LED firebox with transmounted lightjet duratrans (Courtesy of Dana Claxton/Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery/Audain BC Art Acquisition Fund) Dana Claxton is very…

#A cultural renaissance is blooming in Canada, led by Black and Indigenous artists

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“#A cultural renaissance is blooming in Canada, led by Black and Indigenous artists” Laila El Mugammar: At its centre is public art, literature and more. The Canada emerging is one where I am visible. Laila El Mugammar is a Sudanese-Canadian writer and student. Her academic and creative work maps the historic Black presence in Canada….