The exhibition provides a contemporary mirror through which to reconsider Native American culture and identity. ![]() Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks pairs recent works by the artist, including two large-scale murals created specifically for this exhibition, with collection objects such as moccasins, headdresses, ceramics, and beadwork, as well as rarely exhibited materials drawn from the Museum’s Archives and Library Special Collections. The resulting installation, which spans three galleries in the Arts of the Americas wing, challenges long-held representations that have stereotyped Indigenous peoples and Native American art, thereby offering a more joyous narrative of survival and self-determination. Gibson, an artist of Choctaw and Cherokee descent, spent months diving into and researching the Museum’s collections and archives. 1972) to create an exhibition of Native American objects chosen from the Museum’s extensive collection. ![]() More than two years ago, the Brooklyn Museum invited artist Jeffrey Gibson (b.
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