In a comment posted to my Wall Street Journal review yesterday on shows of contemporary Native American art in New York, reader Dar Horn wrote:
This art will show up in galleries when there is a demand for it. That
will only happen when the art buying public is aware of it. Shows like
these help. A slideshow in this article would have, too.
Dar, your wish is my command. As you know, a photo of the first object that I cited in my WSJ piece accompanies the article. You can see my photos of both sides of “Ironworker Cradleboard” in yesterday’s related CultureGrrl post, here.
Now view my 40-second slide show, to see the other pieces that I mentioned in my review of the Museum of Arts & Design’s Changing Hands and the National Museum of the American Indian’s We Are Here:
Photos and slideshow by Lee Rosenbaum
What’s interesting about “Changing Hands” that I didn’t previously mention is that MAD’s guest curator, Ellen Taubman, encouraged artists to provide her with strikingly contemporary twists on traditional themes and forms.
The results were lively, witty, provocative and sometimes amusingly outrageous:
Detail from Barry Ace, “Bandolier Bag,” 2011, with beads and digital computer screen