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November  20

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The Double Entendre of Reenactment
Thursday,  November  20 , 6 pm, National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, Auditorium
One Bowling Green, New York City
Sunday, November 23, 2pm, National Museum of the American Indian, Rasmuson Theater

Gerald McMaster, curator of Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Toronto, presents an often humorous examination of historical reenactments of Native life, from the works of painter George Catlin to those of today’s Native media artists, who are reinterpreting reenactment as a means of artistic defiance.

Cosponsor: New York University’s Program in Media, Culture and History


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