Venice's S ámi Pavilion Is a Coup for Indigenous Artists

April 18, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌧️ Happy Monday! Today, Anna Souter reports about the Sámi Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, a former Japanese princess is volunteering at the Met, and reviews of Timothy Hull, Carlos Villa, and an exhibition in Texas focused on printmaking in the Chicano movement.

Also, the response to Seph Rodney’s essay reflecting on six years at Hyperallergic has been incredible. We’ve organized a chat with Seph about art criticism on Twitter Spaces on Monday, April 18 at 3 pm EDT. Join us!

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Venice's Sámi Pavilion Is a Coup for Indigenous Artists

Far from empty wildernesses, the ancestral lands of the Sámi people in the European Arctic are ecologically diverse sites of culture, care, and collective endeavor. | Anna Souter

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