BROOKLYN, N.Y., Jan. 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains focuses on the tipi as the center of Plains culture and social, religious, and creative traditions from the early ...

In 1889, the same year that Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night, the Húnkpapa Lakoda warrior Rain-in-the_Face illustrated a chronicle of his exploits -- horse-stealing, making war and even the ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — A 30-foot tipi towers over the fifth-floor atrium in the Brooklyn Museum. The majestic structure is part of a new exhibition that focuses on the central role of the tipi in the ...

This exhibit puts the art in artifacts. “Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains,” opening this Friday at the Brooklyn Museum, celebrates Native American culture and tradition through century-old clothing, ...

Having grown up in the Great Plains and studied some of its history, I was troubled to read, after moving to Brooklyn, E. B. White’s taxonomy (in the 1949 essay Here Is New York) that breaks New ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Brooklyn Museum visitors are discarding all kinds of misinformation, from the spelling (tipi over tee-pee) to the idea that tipis are a long-gone practice. Just outside the venue ...

The following is an interview with artist Bently Spang, whose work appears in the Brooklyn Museum’s current Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains exhibit. For more documentation of the Brooklyn Museum ...