Machine Dazzle wears a discarded plastic tarp belted with a pride-themed University of Michigan fanny pack, a large 3D printed vulva on a Mardi Gras-style chain around his neck. He is explaining to our group the contents of his work, Ouroboros, on view this spring and summer in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in Ann Arbor.

Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints is the first of two temporary exhibitions planned by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to showcase recent acquisitions of prints by Indigenous artists of the United States and Canada.

It poured in Brooklyn Bridge Park the morning I visited Nicholas Galanin’s (Lingít and Unangax̂) temporary installation, In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra (2023), the sky almost the same translucent gray as the adjacent East River. Maybe it was the weather that made the monumental capital letters spelling out “LAND” appear particularly foreboding that day.

Photographer Daniel Ramos’s first solo show in New York is not large. Eight 40-by-52-inch, black-and-white prints span the walls of the Camera Club of New York’s intimate Baxter St Project Space. The photographs themselves do not at first appear complicated either; Ramos took each portrait with a four-by-five view camera at the same bar in Monterrey, Mexico over a two-year period (all works summer 2018–winter 2019), while living in the Northern Mexican city with his wife.

Many Wests is an exhibition focused on what gets left out of stories traditionally told about the American West. Visions of Anglo Americans bravely settling the landscape originate, as we learn from the exhibition’s didactic material, with the U.S. government’s policy of unhalted territorial expansion beginning at the end of the seventeenth century.

Coinciding with the fifth anniversary of 2017’s Hurricane Maria, the exhibition marshals roughly thirty-six works of art in support of its thesis—that Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship to the United States is to blame for the devastating effects of that event.