Indigenous

Contamination from lead, arsenic and the other toxins in Tar Creek in northeastern Oklahoma stole the potential of many children of the Quapaw Nation. As a parent, I can only imagine the anguish and the anger.

There’s a new kid on the artistic block. Last week, world-renowned multidisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson installed “your spirit whispering in my ear” in Dewey Square on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

Drawings of mangled bodies, hanging upside down and at times shown in chopped parts, create a towering wall around the “Noé Martínez: The Body Remembers” installation at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham.