Kent Monkman Reverses Art History's Colonial Gaze
Monkman's two large paintings, the first in a series of commissions for the Met's Great Hall, "highlight the Museum as both a byproduct and beneficiary of colonizing forces, and illuminate how encyclopedic art museums perpetuate settler perspectives of history," writes curator Randall Griffey. "In this regard, his commission is part of a larger institutional reconsideration […]
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