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Sitting Bull S***: Kent Monkman at the Glenbow Museum
Kent Monkman, “Charged Particles in Motion” (2007), Private Collection (Image courtesy Glenbow) (click to enlarge)Gender issues and neo-colonialism are having a fine frippery field day courtesy of Kent...
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Canada, the Country that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Kent Monkman, “Two Kindred Spirits” (2012) (All photos by author for Hyperallergic)NORTH ADAMS, Massachusetts — Framed on the faux-log-cabin wall of Kent Monkman’s piece “Two Kindred Spirits” (2012)...
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Reclaiming Tonto and Appropriating Jay-Z
Duane Linklater, “Tautology” (2011), neon, aluminum, enamel, transformer. Edition of 5. (Courtesy the artist and The Power Plant, photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.)TORONTO — Jay-Z’s lyrics are emblazoned...
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The Violent History of Kent Monkman
Detail of Kent Monkman, “The Deposition” (2014), acrylic on canvas, 84 x 126 inches (all images by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) In Kent Monkman’s first New York solo show, which...
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Best of 2014: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows That Weren’t in Brooklyn
At Sam Durant’s ‘Invisible Surrealists’ (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) Let’s face it: there’s Brooklyn, and then there’s the rest of New York City. (Sorry, rest of New York City!) While the...
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Displaying Three Decades of LGBTQ Art Censored by Museums
Alma Lopez, “Our Lady” (1999), digital print, 17.5 x 14 in (courtesy of the artist, all images courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum) In Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship, opening next month at the...
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Updating Fragonard with an Indigenous Perspective
Kent Monkman, “Scent of a Beaver” (2016) at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery (all photos and GIFs by the author for Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) ANN ARBOR, Mich. —...
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A Curated Section Brings Body Politics to Volta NY
The entrance to Volta NY 2017 at Pier 90 (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Volta bills itself as a “rigorously curated, boutique event — along the lines of a sequence of intense studio...
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Kent Monkman’s Mission to Decenter the Colonial Museum
A view of Kent Monkman’s The Rise and Fall of Civilization installation at the Gardiner Museum in 2015 (photo by Jimmy LImit, and courtesy the Gardiner Museum) Most of our earliest experiences of art...
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Kent Monkman Introduces Candid Indigenous Narratives to the Metropolitan...
Installation view of “Welcoming the Newcomers” (2019) for The Great Hall Commission: Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People), 2019 (image courtesy of the artist and The Metropolitan Museum of...
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Kent Monkman Auctions One of His Drawings to Support Toronto’s Indigenous...
Kent Monkman, “kâ wâsihkopayicik (the ones who shine)” (2008), graphite on acid-free paper, 14 x 17 inches (all images courtesy Kent Monkman Studio) A 2018 study by Toronto Aboriginal Support Services...
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