Nicholas Galanin

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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents “RugLife”

Review: Ya Tseen - „Stand On My Shoulders“ – Lebendig — Rolling Stone

Ya Tseen: Stand on My Shoulders Album Review | Pitchfork

New Music Friday: The best albums out Jan. 16 : All Songs Considered : NPR

Immaculate Collection with Yéil Ya-Tseen  - The Stranger

Sub Pop standouts, Grammy contenders highlight upcoming Seattle concerts | The Seattle Times

The Most Anticipated Museum Openings in 2026

“Indian Theatre: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969” – Border Crossings Magazine

In 2025, Censorship and Firings Defined a Fractured Art World

Hyperallergic’s 20 Most Read Stories of 2025

Contemporary Indigenous Art Reflects Life By The Water In Vancouver, B.C.

How Trump Impacted Arts and Culture in 2025

Thoughts on a Year of Tracking the Top 'Museum Artists' | Artnet News

Best Art of 2025 - The New York Times

The Best Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach, From Visions of Palestine to Scenes of Queer Life

Power 100 - ArtReview

Hold to this Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection | Yorkshire Sculpture Park

AN INCOMPLETE HAUNTING — 601Artspace

16 Acts of Artistic Resistance Happening This Weekend

Help Rania and her children survive in Gaza

Acting Up/Out: Being and Beyond ‘Racist-Isms’ - The Brooklyn Rail

BOMB Magazine | Nicholas Galanin by Jessica Lanay

Top Highlights At Frieze London And Frieze Masters 2025

An Indigenous Takeover of the Met Asks Who Should Write Art History

Indigenous Artists Use AR to Rewrite the Narrative in the Met’s American Wing

Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned augmented reality project - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing

Indigenous Artists Infiltrate the Met With a Guerrilla A.R. Project

What the National Gallery’s Closure Says About Culture in America | Observer

Soros's Foundations, Which Fund Artists, May Be Investigated

"It Often Rhymes" Group exhibit at The Current in Vermont.

The Artworld That Cried Wolf - ArtReview

Announcing the 2025 Frieze x ICA Film Programme | Frieze

These 15 Artists Are the Biggest at U.S. Museums Right Now

Two Artists Withdraw From Smithsonian Symposium

Kahlil Joseph’s sprawling audio-visual compendium BLKNWS returns as a feature-length film - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

Off-Market: 11 Must-See Satellite Shows and Events for Santa Fe Indian Market 2025

Let's Talk! Kinship & Process | MassArt Art Museum

Stand On My Shoulders, by Ya Tseen Limited edition vinyl

ICA Santa Fe | Indigenous Humor as Resistance: A Panel Discussion

Museum in Stowe has visitors vocalizing

Ya Tseen - Taste On My Lips (feat. Portugal. The Man, Meshell Ndegeocello, Sidibe) [Official Video]

New digital album Stand On My Shoulders from Ya Tseen, out January 16th, 2026 on Sub Pop! Pre-save now and stream the new single "Taste On My Lips"!

Can you mount an art exhibition about race in the age of Trump? | CNN Politics

The Shape of Power: the Exhibition the Trump Administration Doesn't Want You to See - BmoreArt

With the Triennial, Indigenous Artists Reckon with Memory and Monuments

Boston’s Public Art Triennial Embraces the Commons

Nicholas Galanin’s New American National Anthem

‘A space for mourning’ or a trauma theme park? Dark Mofo struggles with its most powerful works

In Boston’s sprawling Triennial exhibition, an Indigenous artist’s evocations of cultural extinction haunt - The Boston Globe

BOSTON GETS BOLD: THE CITY’S FIRST-EVER PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL - Fused Magazine

Boston’s Triennial Reimagines Public Art Through the City’s Social, Historical and Ecological Realities

Programs: Banksia – Nicholas Galanin on Neon Anthem at Dark Mofo, Banksia — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

Inaugural Boston Public Art Triennial Strives To Bring City More ‘Wow’ Moments

Boston Public Art Triennial launches with more than a dozen projects across the city

ArtReview May 2025 Issue Out Now

Mayor Wu Announces Year Two Recipients of Un-Monument | Re-Monument |De-Monument: Transforming Boston

In an Exhibition of Native Artists, Clichés Give Way to Charged Memories

Blamo!

Boston Public Art Triennial Hopes to Offer a New Image of the City

Don Tyson Prize winner Nicholas Galanin talks about his art | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Sculptor Nicholas Galanin's work has been targeted by Trump order. He says he won’t stop making art

HONORARY DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS RSVP Nicholas Galanin

www.culturesummitabudhabi.com

Indigenous Art History Has Been Waiting for You to Catch Up

Catch the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial before it closes

Tasmania’s Dark Mofo is back with a bang – and a car crash: festival announces 2025 programme

Dark Mofo festival returns with screams and a car crash

The Newfound Fervor for Indigenous Art Masks Thorny Questions

Trump Takes Aim at Smithsonian, Wading Into Race and Biology

Painting US Empire

From Iceland — Where North Begins: Eight Perspectives On What It Means To Live In The North

Nicholas Galanin

The Hollywood Sign: a problematic symbol of fantasy and exclusion

Nicholas Galanin | MassArt Art Museum

Mother Nature In the Bardo

Building Bridges Totem Carving Apprentice Application

Hyperallergic Spring 2025 New York Art Guide

Crystal Bridges Celebrates Indigenous Art with Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, Don Tyson Prize Recipient Nicholas Galanin | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

A common thread: Exhibit at the Shepherd explores intersection of textiles, technology

Northern Exposure: Art from the Arctic - Icelandictimes.com

Zimmerli Art Museum Opening Exhibition Of Contemporary Native American Art Curated By Recently Deceased Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

21 Events That Defined the Art World’s Response to Israel’s War in Gaza

hyperallergic.com

For Nicholas Galanin, Art Is a Tool of Indigenous Resilience and Resistance

A new vision: Looking back on TMA's 2024 acquisitions

8 New York City Art Shows to Kick Off the New Year

Nicholas Galanin

17 Art-World Tastemakers on the Artist They're Most Excited About in 2025

Art World Dos and Don’ts for 2025

A Quiet Spot in Uruguay Is the ‘Hamptons of South America’

Nicholas Galanin Hews Visions of the Present From Indigenous Knowledge, Land, and Memory

Top 50 Exhibitions Around the World in 2024

NICHOLAS GALANIN WINS CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM’S $200,000 DON TYSON PRIZE

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Awards Visual Artist Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit-Unangax̂) with the 2024 Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Nicholas Galanin Wins Crystal Bridges Museum’s $200,000 Prize

Year In Review: 2024 Saw a New Level of Interest in Indigenous Art—the Market Response Has Been More Complicated

Indigenous Lullabies - Mon. Dec. 16th 2024

The Defining Art Events of 2024

The persistence of Land claims in a climate of change November 8, 2024 – January 18, 2025

Art Basel Miami 2024: Peter Blum Gallery’s Nicholas Galanin and Su-Mei Tse — Musée Magazine

The Shape of Power Examines America’s Racial History Through the Lens of Sculpture

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 Clayton Calvert Reveals His Top Choices

Nicholas Galanin

At Miami's Art Basel fair, elephants and a buried ship are bringing out the locals

Submerged shipwreck sculpture on Miami beach confronts colonialism

Miami Art Week Preview 2024; Nicholas Galanin Installation Grounds Luxury Fantasyland

Grand Opening Miami Art Week

During This Year’s Miami Art Week, These Activations Will Be the Talk of the Town

submerged pavilions & kinetic sculptures: new meeting points at abu dhabi public art biennial

Art Basel Miami Events 2024: Artists, Venues, And Must-See Exhibitions

Miami Art Week is overwhelming but these are the events you don’t want to miss

Nicholas Galanin - Viewing Room - Peter Blum Gallery, New York

PUBLIC ART ABU DHABI

Nicholas Galanin - Exhibitions - Peter Blum Gallery, New York

Toronto Biennial of Art: Benefit Auction 2024

Miami Art Week Preview 2024; Nicholas Galanin Installation Grounds Luxury Fantasyland

We need to talk about: Indigeneity - land, food, and creative engagement with place - Oxford Food Symposium

Nicholas Galanin

‘We Are Here: Scenes From the Streets’ Review: On-the-Ground Action at the International Center of Photography

“We Are Here” In Conversation—Anthony Hernandez & Nicholas Galanin

The Third Toronto Biennial of Art Is Joyfully Defiant

Nicholas Galanin expose à la Biennale d’art de Toronto

Tribal sovereignty defined

Nicholas Galanin - Viewing Room - Peter Blum Gallery, New York

International exhibition The Space Between highlights Indigenous knowledge and methodology

First Exhibition To Examine the Intertwined Histories of American Sculpture and Race Opens Nov. 8 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum | Smithsonian Institution

At the Toronto Biennial, precariousness is a good thing

Inauguración de seis exposiciones y encuentro El espacio en medio: arte, diálogos y performances

One Fine Show: Nicholas Galanin’s “Exist in the Width of a Knife’s Edge” in Baltimore

Caine College of the Arts Dean's Convocation to Feature Artist Nicholas Galanin

What Happened to the Armory Show?

At 30, The Armory Show Asks, Can Art Fairs Still be Relevant?

APAA’s Top Picks from The Armory Show 2024 — Association of Professional Art Advisors

Armory Live 2024 | The Armory Show

We Are Here: Scenes from the Streets

2024 | Show Guide | Platform | The Armory Show

Common Ground: A Flourishing Partnership Between Davidson College and the Catawba Nation

Montclair Art Museum Reinstalls Permanent Collection of Indigenous Art Following Major Collaborative Revision | Montclair Art Museum

Public Art in Review

See the future through the eyes of 6 Indigenous artists

Nicholas Galanin: kʼidéin yéi jeené (You're doing such a good job) Pittsburgh Wood Street Galleries July 26, 2024 - September 29, 2024

Ear Expansion with Nicholas Galanin

A Native ‘Takeover’ At Baltimore Museum Of Art

Common Ground: A Flourishing Partnership Between Davidson College and the Catawba Nation

Welcome – Toronto Biennial of Art

In Pursuit: Artists’ Perspectives on a Nation

National Liberty Museum debuts new large-scale exhibition, ‘In Pursuit’ – Metro Philadelphia

Art Guide - Is this North?

Boston Public Art Triennial reveals artist lineup - The Boston Globe

In the Studio: Nicholas Galanin

The transformative rise of Indigenous and First Nations artists

Recipients of the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship Announced, Including Nicholas Galanin, Lorraine O’Grady, and More

Lorraine O’Grady and Nicholas Galanin Named Guggenheim Fellows

2024 Guggenheim Fellows

Indigenous Visions | Venice Biennale

Nicholas Galanin: Exist in the Width of a Knife’s Edge | Baltimore Museum of Art

What the New Federal Regulations for Native American Ancestors and Sacred Objects Mean for Museums

Communitas Connects Students, Artists, Community

Nicholas Galanin: In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra at Public Art Fund

Nicholas Galanin Looks Past Trauma to Recovery

Broken Ice ⏤ Indigenous Sonic Salve from the North ★ First Avenue - First Avenue

Indigenous Futurism: In Conversation with Sean Sherman and Nicholas Galanin — The Great Northern

In New Show, Lingít Artist Nicholas Galanin Shows What Decolonization Actually Looks Like

The Top 10 ARTnews Stories of 2023

The Top 50 Exhibitions of 2023

Will You Break Your Silence and Scream? Nicholas Galanin Wants to Know

Power 100

The Defining Artworks of 2023

The Defining Exhibitions of 2023

Running 'Interference': Nicholas Galanin challenges the legacies, consequences of colonization through art

Nicholas Galanin’s Pointed Public Sculpture Inspires Glorious Noise in New York

Sovereign Futures: A Conversation About Land Use in New York City - Public Art Fund

Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2023 Fellowships

Whose Land? Indigenous Artist Nicholas Galanin Probes America’s Violent Past in Public

Screenprinting with Mobile Print Power - Public Art Fund

A new monument lands in Brooklyn

Nicholas Galanin - SITE SANTA FE

Five Outdoor Art Exhibitions to Check Out in New York This Summer

www.allarts.org

The Double Negative » A Reckoning: Liverpool Biennial – Reviewed

PUBLIC ART FUND - Interview with Susan Freedman | Art Insiders New York Podcast hosted by Anders Holst

A Conversation with Rebecca Belmore, Nicholas Galanin, and Candice Hopkins at Bard College

Influence of performance on contemporary Native American art

Liverpool Biennial 2023 review – devastating insights into the horrors of slavery | Art and design | The Guardian

Aesthetica Magazine - Liverpool Biennial 2023: 5 Artists to Know

Vengeful Orca Pod and Anna Delvey’s Pod…cast

Front Row - Dave Johns on I, Daniel Blake; the Liverpool Biennial; why Dario Fo's plays speak to this moment? - BBC Sounds

Liverpool Biennial 2023: a powerful, city-wide study of the scars of the slave trade

High Line Presents Proposals for 2026 + 2027 Plinth & They Want to Know What You Think | GothamToGo

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Continues Breaking The ‘Buckskin Ceiling’

Steel sculpture ‘lands’ in New York City

A New Brooklyn Sculpture Turns Pop Art on Its Head

A new sculpture at Brooklyn Bridge Park evokes colonization and migration with weathered steel

‘My work holds a mirror to one’s perspective’: Nicholas Galanin on his new public sculpture made of border wall steel

A massive sculpture at Brooklyn Bridge Park forces a dialogue around land - Brooklyn Magazine

You can now walk through this 30-foot-tall sculpture in Brooklyn

New totem poles on Juneau’s waterfront will soon have signs explaining their significance

Nicholas Galanin | Ancestral Acumen (2019) | Available for Sale | Artsy

Totem poles raised along waterfront ahead of trail dedication ceremony | Juneau Empire

Podcasts

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century | Baltimore Museum of Art

Liverpool Biennial Announces Programme for its 12th Edition Opening June 2023 | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art

Liverpool Biennial 2023

Nicholas Galanin on Apr 19, 2023 | UCSB Arts & Lectures

Nicholas Galanin: In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra - Public Art Fund

Indigenous Musicians Rising: An Interconnected View on Contemporary Creative Approaches - REDEFINE magazine - music art film journalism - reviews, interviews, features

Visiting NYC this year? 12 must-see exhibitions to enrich your trip

2023 Exhibitions - Public Art Fund

Native Artists Step Into the Light

Truth-Telling Confronts the Colonial Gaze

NEWS_SHI sets dates for Totem Pole Trail, Faces of Alaska ceremony | Sealaska Heritage

Contemporary Indigenous photography: in pictures

Nicholas Galanin is Letting Generational Conversations Flow

New project spotlights work of modern Indigenous American artists

Indigenous art communities emerged from the pandemic more resilient

Download the Winter 2023 Experience Issue

Episode 9 – Nicholas Galanin

Best New Podcasts of 2022

In an Indigenous artist’s unsparing work, powerful indictments of settler-colonial violence.

Past/Present/Future: Expanding Indigenous American, Latinx, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Perspectives in Thomas J. Watson Library

Whitney acquisition

Yale University Interview

It Flows Through at Peter Blum Gallery

The 25 Best Artworks About the U.S. Flag

‘Unshadowed Land’ Installation Celebrates Resilience of Indigenous Peoples

Ya Tseen: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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