Episode No. 703 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Dakota Mace and curator Claire Howard.

SITE Santa Fe is showing “Dakota Mace: DAHODIYINII—SACRED PLACES,” an investigation of an atrocity during which the United States expelled the Diné people from Dinétah, their ancestral homeland, and forced them to march as many as 400 miles to the Bosque Redondo in central-eastern New Mexico, where they were forced to remain in a concentration camp from 1864-68. The exhibition is organized into themes such as memory, land, and the stars; with each section of the show considering Diné cosmology. The exhibition, which is on view through May 19, was curated by Brandee Caoba.

Mace is also featured in “Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time” at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. The exhibition examines how Native artists have explored memory and time, including how the past is continually remembered and reimagined. It was curated by Sháńdíín Brown and will remain on view through August 31, 2025. “Smoke in Our Hair” features previous MAN Podcast guests such as Saif Azzuz, Teresa Baker, and Andrea Carlson.

Series of Mace’s work discussed on the program and presented in full on her website include:

• Dahodiyinii;
• Distorted Landscapes;
• Łichíí (Red) Series; and
• Akágí (Skin).

Host Tyler Green mentions two books on the program:

• Hardship, Greed, and Sorrow: An Officer’s Photo Album of 1866 New Mexico Territory, by Daniel Kosharek and Deborah Romanek, with a forward by Jennifer Nez Dennetdale;
• Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache, by Keith Basso.

Howard is the curator of one section of “In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships” an exhibition that considers artistic discourse, at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin. Howard’s section considers the relationship between Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi. Other sections present dialogue between Nora Naranjo Morse and her daughter Eliza Naranjo Morse and José Guadalupe Posada and Artemio Rodríguez. It’s on view through July 20.

• The catalogue for the 1978 Newark Museum exhibition on Arshile Gorky’s Newark Airport murals is viewable at the Internet Archive.

Instagram: Dakota Mace, Claire Howard, Tyler Green.

Air date: April 24, 2025.