CHARLES AND VALERIE DIKER
FIGS. 14a–c (this page):
Installation views of Art of Native
America: The Charles and Valerie
Diker Collection in the American
Wing of the Met.
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Art of Native America:
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
Through October 6, 2019
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The Met is engaged with a group of advisors for the Diker initiative.
Included are Kathleen Ash-Milby (Diné/Navajo), Associate Curator,
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York; Ned
Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), Professor of History and American
Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Steven C. Brown,
Program Specialist, Sealaska Heritage Institute, Juneau, Alaska;
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Associate Professor, Art History, Barnard College
and Columbia University, New York; and Brian Vallo (Acoma), Director,
Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
The installation was organized at the Met by Sylvia Yount, Lawrence
A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing, and guest cocurated
by Gaylord Torrence, Fred and Virginia Merrill Senior Curator of
American Indian Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Marjorie
Alexander, Curatorial Consultant. The installation of Art of Native America
was designed by Daniel Kershaw, Exhibition Design Manager.
An illustrated catalog published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and distributed by Yale University Press accompanies the installation.
Contributions include essays by guest curator Gaylord Torrence on the
historical, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions of select masterworks; Yale
historian Ned Blackhawk on the complexity of displaying historical Native
American art in a contemporary museum setting; and Sylvia Yount on the
signifi cance of introducing Native American objects into a department
historically devoted to Euro-American art. Photography for the catalog was
produced by Bruce J. Schwarz.
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