If you are in the Houston area, there is something wonderful for you to see at the Menil Collection.
From eflux.com:
Powerful forces combine in UPSIDE DOWN: ARCTIC REALTIES, an exhibition and museum-going experience opening at the Menil on April 15. Rare and rarely exhibited examples of ancient Arctic art—many collected by the renowned anthropologist, cinematographer and media theorist Edmund Carpenter—will be presented in a “total environment” designed by the light artist Doug Wheeler.
Carpenter has spent decades studying the relationship between the Arctic environment and the array of objects from that vast region. In 1973 he published the seminal Eskimo Realities, exploring indigenous peoples’ sensory relationships with their surroundings and ways in which those relationships were manifested in an art that is at once delicate and utilitarian.
