Gold-fringed walls and piñata corncobs transform the Grand Salon of SAAM's Renwick Gallery and highlight the role of maize in North American visual culture.
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Alan Michelson, Hanödaga:yas (Town Destroyer), 2018, video installation with replica bust of George Washington, antique surveyor's tripod, artificial turf, and single-channel HD digital video, color, sound; 05:57 minutes. Sound: members of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, approx. 75 x 72 x 72 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Lucille and Richard Spagnuolo and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2024.13A-D, Image credit: Edition 1/3, in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum. Image courtesy of the artist and the Peabody Essex Museum.
video installation with replica bust of George Washington, antique surveyor's tripod, artificial turf, and single-channel HD digital video, color, sound; 05:57 minutes. Sound: members of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
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Alan Michelson, Hanödaga:yas (Town Destroyer), 2018, video installation with replica bust of George Washington, antique surveyor's tripod, artificial turf, and single-channel HD digital video, color, sound; 05:57 minutes. Sound: members of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, approx. 75 x 72 x 72 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Lucille and Richard Spagnuolo and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2024.13A-D, Image credit: Edition 1/3, in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum. Image courtesy of the artist and the Peabody Essex Museum.
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