There’s no one like Kent Monkman. One can rarely say this literally about fine artists. Great paintings, of course, employ idiosyncratic vantages, styles, and metaphors, but their subjects and insights are seldom peerless. Yet Monkman—a Cree interdisciplinary artist raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba—and his historical, often fantastical paintings stand alone in the art world. His work responds to an education system bereft of Indigenous content, foiling this erasure using artistic, institutional, and commercial means. In so doing, he has become one of the only sources of the kind of cultural news he delivers.