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Fold Yourself a Little Serenity
With The Lotus Effect, the Rubin Museum of Art invites participants to stop and recenter.
Rubin Museum of Art
Announcement
Rubin Museum Invites the Public to Participate in The Lotus Effect, a Community-Built Installation
Learn to fold an origami lotus, inspire hope and transformation, and contribute your folded flower to an installation at the Rubin Museum of Art.
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The Urgent and Necessary Images of Shahidul Alam
At the Rubin Museum of Art, Truth to Power spotlights Alam's tireless documentation of over 40 years of struggle and change in his native Bangladesh.
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When the Arts Resist Imperialism
The exhibition Clapping with Stones is a chilling reminder that the history of art is also the history of power.
Announcement
Artists Will Empower Visitors and Dispel Fears at Rubin Museum Power Trip Fundraiser
Experience mind explorations, Vedic astrology, sound healing, flower mandala making, music and dance performances, and more at the Rubin’s fete on May 7.
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A Conversation on the Power and Misuse of Language
Katha Pollitt and Richard Friedman sit down to discuss the power of words to shape our world.
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Rubin Museum Hosts a Night of Tibetan Storytelling
The Rubin Museum of Art will host a night of spiritual Tibetan storytelling, followed by a guided "treasure map tour" of the galleries.
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A Himalayan and South Asian Musical Series Inspired by a Spiral Staircase
The Rubin Museum connects visual art and music through a series of acoustic performances.
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A Feminist Artist's Postcolonial Animations
Chitra Ganesh's appropriations of traditional Hindu and Buddhist artworks are part homage to the past, part alternate realities and part badass feminist interventions.
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An Exhibition Turns a Tibetan Art Museum into a Musical Instrument
The World Is Sound at the Rubin Museum asks visitors to listen to Tibetan Buddhist art with their whole body.
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Transporting Sounds from Nepal’s Mountain Monasteries
Soundwalk Collective recorded wind at 200 villages and monasteries in Nepal to create an immersive experience at the Rubin Museum.
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Praying at the Altar of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
The psychic cross — a cultic symbol adapted from the Eastern Orthodox Church — hangs above the Rubin Museum’s winding staircase, alerting you that something unusual is happening on the top floor of a museum devoted to Asian culture.