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Meet the Artist—Kent Monkman on mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)

December 20, 2019

By Kent Monkman

Monkman inaugurates The Met’s annual Great Hall Commission with _mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)_.
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Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Kent Monkman’s Alter Ego

December 23, 2019

By Kent Monkman

“I wanted a persona to really reflect our point of view at the time that colonial policies were beginning.”
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The Met Acquires Commissioned Works by Cree Artist Kent Monkman

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Monumental Paintings by Kent Monkman Unveiled at The Met

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Kent Monkman Reverses Art History’s Colonial Gaze

December 17, 2019

By Randall Griffey

The celebrated Cree artist arrives at The Met—along with his gender-bending, time-travelling, shape-shifting alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
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The Artist Project: Alexis Rockman

December 7, 2015
Artist Alexis Rockman reflects on Martin Johnson Heade’s _Hummingbird and Passionflowers_ in this episode of The Artist Project.
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The Met Announces Major New Contemporary Commissions and Installations

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Art for Resilience: Sumerian Standing Female Worshipper and More

December 21, 2020

By Kim Benzel and The Digital Editors

Met staff reflect on artworks that inspire resilience, from a Sumerian limestone statue to a contemporary collage by Wangechi Mutu.
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2019-2020 Upcoming Major Exhibitions

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Tong Yang-Tze’s Large-Scale Works of Calligraphy for The Met's Great Hall are Now on View

简体中文 | 繁體中文 On view through April 8, 2025, Dialogue is the artist’s first major project in the United States. Tong’s work also marks the third in The Met’s series of Great Hall Commissions.
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mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People): Welcoming the Newcomers

Kent Monkman (First Nations, Cree, born Saint Marys, Ontario 1965)

Date: 2019
Accession Number: 2020.216a

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Monumental Paintings by Kent Monkman Unveiled at The Met

December 19, 2019–April 19, 2021

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mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People): Resurgence of the People

Kent Monkman (First Nations, Cree, born Saint Marys, Ontario 1965)

Date: 2019
Accession Number: 2020.216b

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The Great Hall Commission: Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)

Kent Monkman (Canadian, born 1965) is a Cree artist who is widely known for his provocative interventions into Western European and American art history.

On view from December 19, 2019.

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The Met Acquires Commissioned Works by Cree Artist Kent Monkman

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Kent Monkman on mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)

Monkman inaugurates The Met’s annual Great Hall Commission with mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People).

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The Met Announces Major New Contemporary Commissions and Installations

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American Wing

Art has a unique way of bringing complicated facts to life. What can it tell us about the multiple histories of two continents over several centuries? Visit the American Wing Primer.
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Native Perspectives

Contemporary Native artists and historians respond to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Euro-American representations of Indigenous subjects in the American Wing's collection.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Verizon Launch Interactive Virtual Art Experience