Not Your Ancestors’ Cradleboard: Contemporary Native American Art

“On one side, Donald ‘Babe’ Hemlock’s Ironworker Cradleboard (2011) looks like the cozy abode devised by American Indians to swaddle an infant … Painted on the cradle’s wood support is a Mohawk ironworker, balancing on one foot atop a construction girder that is vertiginously suspended over Times Square.”