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The title of the exhibition of American Indian art at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, “Indigenous Beauty,” reminds us that there were centuries-old traditions of art-making in the Americas long before Europeans arrived, traditions that continued even as the new settlers’ expansion threatened to engulf them.

Valerie and Charles Diker, an American couple, have spent a good deal of their lives developing a wide-ranging collection of Indian art from one corner of North America to the other.

“The Plains Indians: Artists of the Earth and Sky,” one of the greatest exhibitions of American Indian art you may ever see, opened Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show was originated by the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (where I saw it) in Kansas City, Mo., and organized by the inestimable Gaylord Torrence, the Nelson-Atkins’s curator in the field and also the orchestrator of its acclaimed permanent collection galleries.

Seattle Art Museum is featuring a major exhibit of American Indian art early in 2015.

"Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection" opens at the downtown museum on Feb. 12 and runs through May 17, 2015.

The exhibit is drawn from the celebrated Native American art collection of Charles and Valerie Diker of New York City. It is organized by the American Federation of Arts. It will feature 122 masterworks representing tribes and First Nations across the North American continent.

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s set a new record for a piece of American Indian Art at auction when an Oglala Sioux Beaded and Fringed Hide War Shirt which once belonged to the famous and celebrated Sioux Chief, Black Bird sold to an anonymous buyer for $2,658,500 (est. $250/350,000). The War Shirt led the sale which totaled $4,809,503. This was comfortably over the high estimate and the highest ever total for a various owner sale in this category (overall est. $2.8/4 million).