ARTNET NEWS
By Sarah Cascone
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| Kent Monkman, Welcoming the Newcomers (2019). Photo by Anna Marie Kellen, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
When visitors enter the Great Hall of New York’s
Metropolitan Museum of Art this month, they will be greeted with something unusual: a pair of monumental history paintings by Cree artist
Kent Monkman. The massive canvases—almost 11 feet by 22 feet—seek to do nothing less than turn conventional Western art history on its head. The exhibition, titled “mistikosiwak (Wooden Boat People),” comprises two massive paintings,
Welcoming the Newcomers and
Resurgence of the People. Both paintings star Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, a representation of indigenous Two Spirit traditions. [
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| Thomas Crawford, Mexican Girl Dying (1846–48) and the figure inspired by the sculpture in Kent Monkman’s Welcoming the Newcomers (2019). Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
