Upside Down: Arctic Realities Regular Merchandise This chronicle of its conception

This chronicle of its conception and execution reveals an ascendant cultural history of Los Angeles in the early 1960s

Dominique de Menil acquired many of the museum’s icons from the noted British collector Eric Bradley in 1985

weaving—and often anticipating—aspects of conceptual

technical studies

He  served as co-curator of Silence (2012) and co-authored the accompanying publication

Upside Down: Arctic Realities Regular Merchandise This chronicle of its conceptionThis book brings together ancient works from all over the Arctic region, including major sites in Russia and Alaska. It includes both utilitarian and decorative items, among them amulets, funerary offerings, and ceremonial masks, plus a selection of 19th century masks from the modern Yupik that showcases the persistence of these cultural traditions. In his groundbreaking 1973 book Eskimo Realities, Edmund Carpenter distinguished their ideas of art