scholarly journals Decolonising the museum: the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC

Antiquity ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (304) ◽  
pp. 424-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Smith
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Mall ◽  
New Facility

The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), the Smithsonian Institution’s new facility on the National Mall in Washington DC, challenges the very notion of what constitutes a museum. Probably the most theoretically informed museum in North America, this is no shrine to the past: it is a museum that claims both past and present to shape a decolonised future for Indigenous populations.

scholarly journals Are Indians in America's DNA?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 80-97
Author(s):  
Marina Tyquiengco ◽  
Monika Siebert
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
American Indian ◽  
National Museum ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Indigenous Art

A conversation between Dr. Monika Siebert and Marina Tyquiengco on:   Americans National Museum of the American Indian January 18, 2018–2022 Washington, D.C.   Monika Siebert, Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015.

scholarly journals Indigenous Articulations

Collections ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-431
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Successes And Failures

Examines the ways that curators have attempted to represent multiple forms of indigenous experience and politics in exhibition, including the successes and failures of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC (Smith), the hybridizing curatorial legacies of Rene d'Hamoncourt (Lutkehaus), and the contemporary “transpacific fusion” artworks of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Levell).

Cyanobacteria cause black staining of the National Museum of the American Indian Building, Washington, DC, USA

Biofouling ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Cappitelli ◽  
Ornella Salvadori ◽  
Domenico Albanese ◽  
Federica Villa ◽  
Claudia Sorlini
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum

Five Years and Count(er)ing: Memoir after Memoir

CounterText ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Norbert Bugeja
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editor ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Terror Attack ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Perspectives ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Ongoing Project

In this retrospective piece, the Guest Editor of the first number of CounterText (a special issue titled Postcolonial Springs) looks back at the past five years from various scholarly and personal perspectives. He places particular focus on an event that took place mid-way between the 2011 uprisings across a number of Arab countries and the moment of writing: the March 2015 terror attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, which killed twenty-two people and had a profound effect on Tunisian popular consciousness and that of the post-2011 Arab nations. In this context, the author argues for a renewed perspective on memoir as at once a memorial practice and a political gesture in writing, one that exceeds concerns of genre and form to encompass an ongoing project of political re-cognition following events that continue to remap the agenda for the region. The piece makes a brief final pitch for Europe's need to re-cognise, within those modes of ‘articulacy-in-difficulty’ active on its southern borders, specific answers to its own present quandaries.

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa, ed. Kathleen Bickford Berzock. Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019, 312 pp., many colored ill. and maps.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
African Art ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Associate Director

This catalog accompanies a fascinating and innovative exhibition documenting the art in medieval Saharan Africa, first shown at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, from Jan. 26 to July 21, 2019, then at The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, from Sept. 21 2019 to Feb. 23, 2020, and finally at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, April 8 to Nov. 29, 2020. To bring all those very valuable objects together and to organize this exhibit, represents a major task involving many people. Here I want to concentrate only on the catalog itself, magisterially edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Block Museum of Art.

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