NYC: Shows That Defy Stereotypes: This Is Not Your Father's Cowboys & Indians

Writer Lee Rosenbaum describes recent installations at the National Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Museum by writing:

The effect of these stereotype-busting displays is sometimes jarring, especially because the canon now includes contemporary art. Today's curators want visitors to view Indian artworks not as quaint ethnographic artifacts, but as vital expressions of a living culture, spanning prehistory to the present.

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