Contemporary Indigenous American Art as a Claim for Land

August 31, 2026

In the fall of 2016, water protectors at Standing Rock used an unusual form of artistic protest while resisting law enforcement personnel. They held plywood shields covered with reflective Mylar, angled so that police officers approaching them...

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Contemporary Street Art: From Anonymity to the Auction House

August 24, 2026

Graffiti and street art have traditionally relied on a distinct form of artist identification. Creatives used tags as their names, with repeated, recognizable imagery often substituting for formal attribution. However, problems with this form of identification arose...

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