10 Queer Indigenous Artists on Where Their Inspirations Have Led Them
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/t-magazine/queer-indigenous-artists.html
While wide-ranging in scope and style, these pieces are alike in their power and depth.
Interviews by Samuel Rutter and Caitlin Youngquist
April 23, 2021, 3:35 p.m. ET
Though the pandemic’s grip is starting to loosen, and relief finally feels within reach, this past year has underscored our country’s long history of violence, new examples of which serve as reminders of older ones. Among them are the myriad atrocities perpetuated against Indigenous people in what we now call America (and beyond), individuals whose experiences are to this day too often distorted or left untold. Lately, though, there have been some hard-won gains on that front, from professional sports teams finally changing their names to the Metropolitan Museum of Art hiring Patricia Marroquin Norby as its first curator of Native American Art. It is not necessarily
Group exhibition curated by Elliott Hundley on view at Regen Projects
Installation view of Make-Shift-Future, curated by Elliott Hundley at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, March 27 May 22, 2021. Photo: Evan Bedford, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Regen Projects presents Make-Shift-Future, a group exhibition curated by Elliott Hundley, featuring Kevin Beasley, Elaine Cameron-Weir, rafa esparza, Max Hooper Schneider, Eric N. Mack, Alicia Piller, Eric-Paul Riege, and Kandis Williams. I am interested in studying ancient literature because, like speculative fiction, it can massage loose the underpinnings of our attachments to pervasive contemporary mythologies, so that we might gain a clearer view of ourselves and reveal the blind spots. So many blind spots.
Near the Navajo Nation, the place hit hardest by the virus
(Adam Ferguson | The New York Times) Eric-Paul Riege, whose art has appeared in galleries and collections around the country, in Gallup, N.M., Nov. 27, 2020. Paid projects have dried up so he s been working shifts at a local diner. The coronavirus has disfigured Gallup, a small New Mexico town near Native American reservations, that is now one of the hardest hit places in the country.
By Adam Ferguson | The New York Times
| Dec. 30, 2020, 9:15 p.m. | Updated: 9:17 p.m.
Hospitals in Gallup are nearly full. Most stores are empty. The unemployment rate in the county where the city sits is one and a half times the national average. Earlier this month, it had the most cases per capita of any metro area in the United States, according to a New York Times database.