A few weeks ago, the press swooned over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s announcement of a historic change in institutional direction. Valerie and Charles Diker promised a gift of 91 Native American artworks to the Met. Rather than relegating the newly acquired pieces to the galleries for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas where they would be displayed alongside non-Western, predominately Indigenous artists, these 91 Native American artists will be presented in the American Wing, interspersed between the likes of John Singer Sargent and Frederic Remington. This decision is important – but not because of what it says about the status of Native art. It’s important for what it says about the evolution of Western museums.

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