STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art sits quietly at 338 Lighthouse Ave., on Lighthouse Hill, at the edge of the Greenbelt Park. Identified by its protective fieldstone ...
For decades, a mesmerising shrine of Tibetan Buddhist artefacts has been tucked away in a private home on New York’s Upper East Side. This month, the contents of the shrine, more than 200 artefacts in ...
At the center of the celebration was Lama Tashi Norbu, a Tibetan Buddhist lama and contemporary artist who blends ancient ...
An important collection of Tibetan Buddhist art in the U.S. has been given to the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler galleries, announced the gift ...
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of “Into the Sacred City,” an exhibit of Tibetan Buddhist sacred objects now on view at the Blanton Museum of Art, is the back story of the man who collected the ...
New York-based collector Alice S. Kandell can’t exactly pinpoint what drew her to Tibetan art, but she suspects it might have been the immersive experience she had in the 1960s, when she traveled to ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has commissioned the minimalist composer Philip Glass to craft a hypnotic 90-minute performance responding to artworks in its long-term exhibition ...
It is a rare and wonderful day when The Observer can share not one but two news items from the A late-16th-century painting on cotton from Tibet. Photo courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Art. The Rubin ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Visitors will be transported hundreds of years into the past as they walk through a new exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). On Saturday, MIA will unveil the Tibetan ...
"Fascinated by Buddhist art and Asian spirituality, Alain Bordier has spent more than forty years building a unique collection of religious objects from the Himalayas (Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan). On ...