On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025, seventeen Indigenous artists from across North America installed their own exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, taking over the American Wing as it ended its centennial year. The exhibition was unsanctioned. The Met did not know it was coming. 

Using a web-based AR experience, requiring no app downloads, visitors can (until Dec 31, 2025) hold up their phones and watch the museum’s paintings and sculptures transform into living works by contemporary Indigenous artists. Through this AR installation, the American Wing becomes a space where Indigenous presence, creativity, and stories are centered. The exhibition challenges past propaganda embedded in American art history to open space for dialogue about truth, history, and representation today. The intervention invites visitors to slow down, look deeper, and experience the museum’s collection in new ways. It creates a dialogue between artists and visitors, activists and allies, past and future generations.