Hilton Als, author and critic, will be featured as this year’s Visionary speaker at the New Museum. The Visionaries Series at the New Museum honors forward-thinking leaders in the fields of art, architecture, design, film, and related disciplines of contemporary culture. Now in its seventh season, the annual series spotlights […]
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The Menil Collection presents Paleo-Eskimo Artifacts from the Edmund Carpenter Collection Populate a Universe of Their Own In MicroCosmos: Details from the Carpenter Collection On view exclusively at the Menil, August 29, 2015 through February 21, 2016
Over the course of the second half of the twentieth century, Edmund Carpenter—anthropologist, author, broadcaster, filmmaker, and communications theorist—assembled one of the world’s finest and most extensive collections of artifacts made and used by the peoples of the Old Bering Sea cultures of coastal Alaska and Siberia. Dating from as […]