At the Met, Cree artist Kent Monkman asks visitors to confront North America’s colonial past
The Globe and Mail, 2019
Kate Taylor's article profiles the public launch of a new diptych by Cree artist Kent Monkman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Through his paintings, "he is asking the Met and its many visitors to confront North America’s murderous colonial history – as Canada tries exporting Indigenous perspectives and the hope of reconciliation to the United States" (Taylor). These paintings, created under Monkman's direction, represent the artist’s increasingly sophisticated deployment of a revisionist style of history painting.
ITEM 2019.021 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Welcoming the Newcomers – Kent Monkman
Resurgence of the People – Kent Monkman
mistikosiwak (Wooden Boat People) – Kent Monkman
Ragnar Kjartansson
Washington Crossing the Delaware – Emanuel Leutze
The Natchez – Eugène Delacroix
Mexican Girl Dying – Thomas Crawford
Wangechi Mutu