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It poured in Brooklyn Bridge Park the morning I visited Nicholas Galanin’s (Lingít and Unangax̂) temporary installation, In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra (2023), the sky almost the same translucent gray as the adjacent East River. Maybe it was the weather that made the monumental capital letters spelling out “LAND” appear particularly foreboding that day.
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