Painting the Horrors of Colonialism, Kent Monkman Gets Met Spotlight
THE OBSERVER
By RM Vaughan
Kent Monkman is having a big year. A very big year. The Canadian multimedia artist, who is of Cree First Nations heritage, is still crisscrossing North America with his touring show of paintings, “Shame and Prejudice,” a journey which will continue well into 2020, and his new works are appearing in group shows from Duke University to Des Moines. But his next project catapults Monkman into monument-maker status: think Picasso’s Guernica monumental, or Tate Turbine Hall scale. On December 19, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art will unveil mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People), a massive diptych (both 22 feet long) that will fill the Met’s Great Hall. [More]
By RM Vaughan
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| Kent Monkman with one of the paintings included in his current exhibition, “Shame and Prejudice.” |
