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At the Addison, contemporary artists push back on traditional mapmaking Murray Whyte © Julia Featheringill Photography A detail from Heidi Whitman s New World. ANDOVER “They make magic lines only they can see” fretted a member of the Hupacasath First Nation of British Columbia, long ago, as colonial surveyors sliced up his ancestral lands into tidy parcels, a fraction of which would become the Hupacasath’s reservation. That quote, excavated by the Indigenous artist Sonny Assu, undergirds almost all of what matters in “Wayfinding: Contemporary Artists, Critical Dialogues” at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover. The museum is best known as a trove of often-astonishing treasures of American Art downstairs from “Wayfinding” is the full display of Robert Frank’s landmark photo essay “The Americans,” part of the Addison’s permanent collection. But it also happens to have a beguiling suite of maps from the earliest colonial era

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