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An 'anti-World's Fair' makes its case: give land back to Native Americans

A new art installation asks people and institutions to go beyond land acknowledgements - and give property back to Indigenous tribes.
The artists, brothers Adam and Zack Khalil and Jackson Polys, are part of the collective the New Red Order. They call it a "public secret society." Here they are with Creative Time curator Diya Vij.

From the elevated platform of the 7 train in Queens, New York, a formerly-empty lot now looks like a carnival. There's lights and colorful posters and — wait. Is that a giant, talking beaver?

Yes. Yes, it is.

Bruno is an animatronic beaver — think Disney World — and is

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