{"id":13017,"date":"2026-04-06T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=13017"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:50:06","slug":"wendy-red-star-one-blue-bead-at-sargents-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/wendy-red-star-one-blue-bead-at-sargents-daughters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Red Star, &#8216;One Blue Bead&#8217; at Sargent&#8217;s Daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> century versions of the White French Cross bead in the foreground of this installation view of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendyredstar.com\">Wendy Red Star<\/a>\u2019s solo show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sargentsdaughters.com\/one-blue-bead\">Sargent\u2019s Daughters<\/a> in Tribeca were harder for Venetian glassmakers to produce, and therefore worth more in the North American fur trade.\u00a0 Trade routes that brought the beads from Europe to the North American interior as well as historic exchange values (3-4 could trade for a prime winter beaver pelt in the 1800s) are part of the information accompanying Red Star\u2019s alluring display of much enlarged glass beads placed on Hudson Bay blankets.\u00a0 A grid of watercolor paintings features the beads and their names (e.g. Padre, Watermelon), enlarging the tiny forms that generated big demand in exchange between Native Americans and Europeans. (On view in Tribeca through April 18<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 5962px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/ee3c322b-150c-b4a7-d467-8de93b3db615.jpg\" alt=\"Large sculptural glass beads lie on a red blanket on the floor. Behind, on the wall, is a grid of paintings of individual beads.\" width=\"5962\" height=\"7818\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wendy Red Star, installation view of \u2018One Blue Bead\u2019 at Sargent\u2019s Daughters, March 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18th and 19th century versions of the White French Cross bead in the foreground of this installation view of Wendy Red Star\u2019s solo show at Sargent\u2019s Daughters in Tribeca were harder for Venetian glassmakers to produce, and therefore worth more in the North American fur trade.\u00a0 Trade routes that brought the beads from Europe to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/wendy-red-star-one-blue-bead-at-sargents-daughters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wendy Red Star, &#8216;One Blue Bead&#8217; at Sargent&#8217;s Daughters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[7130,13,2245,3732,3024,10,11695,7567,11694],"class_list":["post-13017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-beads","tag-gallery","tag-glass","tag-glass-beads","tag-sargents-daughters","tag-sculpture","tag-trade-beads","tag-tribeca","tag-wendy-red-star"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3nX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13021,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions\/13021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}