Patricia Marroquin Norby is bringing a Native perspective to the Met
Patricia Marroquin Norby, the first full-time curator of Native American art at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum, left, with Sylvia Yount, curator in charge of the museums American wing, June 6, 2021. Jeremy Dennis/The New York Times.
by Elizabeth Pochoda
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Big, bold and by many accounts about time, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts 56-word land-acknowledgment plaque, placed on its Fifth Avenue facade in May, honors the Indigenous peoples past and present (principally the Lenape) whose homeland the institution occupies.
Visitors to the Met, or the Art Institute of Chicago, or any of the other museums where land acknowledgments greet them, may well wonder how these sentiments, crafted with extreme care and usually in consultation with Indigenous communities, fit with galleries containing some two centuries of art depicting Native Americans as occasionally brave, sometimes demonic and most
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