Robert Sargent Austin
The Wooden Bridge, Sottocastello
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1929
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Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Akio Takamori: The Laughing Monks
This exhibition is one of an occasional series where contemporary artists explore the resources of the Henry Art Gallery collections. At the same time it complements the artist's mid-career survey at the Tacoma Art Museum, Between Clouds of Memor...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Gyuto Monks from Tibet in Residence
Daily Programme:
Wednesday through Sunday, 16 January - 3 February 2002
Sand mandala construction throughout the day.
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston: The Art of Tibetan Sand Painting
Mandalas are most commonly created with paint or colored sand in two or
three dimensions. To make the mandala, the mandala master first delineates
the outline by hold...
Bayly Art Museum: The Mystical Arts of Tibet
The exhibition brings together 108 traditional art objects, including 23 exquisite watercolor tangka paintings,
more than a dozen ancient bronze statues, numerous ritual objects made of gilded silver and bronze, and a set of
temple...
Bayly Art Museum: The Mystical Arts of Tibet
Organized by Richard Gere Productions and Losel Shedrup Ling (The Loseling Institute), in conjunction
with Oglethorpe University Museum, the special exhibition The Mystical Arts of Tibet captures the
essence of the artistic...
el museo del barrio: ERNESTO PUJOL: CONVERSION OF MANNERS
CONTEMPORANEA 2000
Conversion of Manners is a Benedictine vow that Roman Catholic monks take when they leave secular life and
enter monastic life. The vow signals changes in spiritual beliefs as well as in physical manners – behavior and
demeanor. Through a seri...
Agora Gallery: Abstract Perspectives: Featuring Paintings by Adrien Asselin
Asselin considers himself a simple seismograph, a witness to contemporary events, an interpreter of a life underlying life, where art is defined with each moment, each of which breathes into him a new inspiration.
Adrien Asselin has shown in...
Helsinki City Art Museum: ATHOS Monastic life on the Holy Mountain
Only male pilgrims are allowed to travel to Athos and even they must obtain a special visa. In recent years, the monastic community of Mount Athos has attracted increasing international interest. Museums want to exhibit its art treasures and more ...
Design Museum, at University of California, Davis: The Ghost and the Beauty Queen: Festivals of Northeast Thailand
Every July at the full moon, the sleepy northeastern Thai city of Ubon Ratchathani comes alive with a spectacular two-day citywide parade called Khao Phansa. The event celebrates the beginning of the Buddhist Rains Retreat, the period when monks ...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Art of Twentieth Century Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy
by Japanese Masters
This is the first exhibition in the United States
devoted to twentieth-century Zen paintings and calligraphy from Japan. The exhibition
is accompanied by a fully illustrated color catalogue published by Shambaha...
Peabody Essex Museum: Mystical Tibetan Art
The Peabody Essex Museum offers a rare glimpse into Tibet, its artistic achievements, and its rich cultural heritage with The Mystical Arts of Tibet, an exhibition of art, religious objects, and photography spanning more than 500 years. The exhibi...
Karin Weber Gallery: Portraits by Min Wae Aung
"They live simple lives. They know and love beauty. They make themselves beautiful with things around them"' says Min Wae of his muses. Flowers worn "preciously" and hand woven cloths adorn their proud selves, indicating a confidence in their nat...
Thavibu Gallery: Burmese Days: Aung Kyaw Htet and Myint Swe
Aung Kyaw Htet was born in 1965 in Myaungmya and studied at the State School
of Fine Arts in Rangoon. He is a devout Buddhist and grew up in a small
village -- two factors which...
Location One: Nano Mandala: Victoria Vesna with Nanoscience Pioneer James Gimzewski
The sand mandala of Chakrasamvara seen in this installation was created by Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Lhopa Khangtsen Monastery in India, in conjunction with the “Circle of Bliss” exhibition on Nepalese and Tibetan Buddhist Art at the L...
Center of Contemporary Art: 'The Middle Way: Christchurch Meets Bangkok, Bangkok Meets Christchurch
'The Middle Way' in Thai Buddhist terms means: "Travelling the middle way, refuting the extremes and having tolerance for others" and for New Zealand/European artists this could mean, finding 'a type of middle ground'.
The Thai artists invol...
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong: To Enlighten Sentient Beings: Calligraphy by Venerable Master Hsing Yun
Jointly organized with the International Buddhist Progress Society (HK) Ltd
and Buddhas Light International Association of Hong Kong, this exhibition
is a lively interplay of calligraphic art and Buddhist teachings. It
features the Masters c...
Telfair Museum of Art: WINDOWS TO HEAVEN: RUSSIAN ICONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DANIEL BIBB AND THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
Russian icons have a long history. The earliest Russian icons
appeared in Kiev in the 10th or 11th centuries; the icons in
this exhibition range in date from the late 17th to ...
Bendixen Contemporary Art: Alexander Tovborg: I Tell You Weird Tales
Our perception is obscured by one or more of his many obstacles, be it industrial tape or a mass of silicone, and yet the obstruction is in the end just a piece of the puzzle, a fragment of the whole. Currently at the Danish Royal Academy of Art,...
Portland Museum of Art: Los Caprichos: Francisco Goya
Court artist to the Spanish royal family, Goya achieved recognition as an unparalleled painter of portraits and religious subject matter. Later in his career, he began to offer a darker and more cynical view of his contemporaries, even those who ...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: Shini-e: The Performance of Death in Japanese Kabuki Actor Prints
"Many have heard of Japan’s 'Floating World' peopled with dashing actors, bewitching courtesans, and enormous coteries of insatiable fans — in sum, the pleasure industry of early-modern Japan. The very term Floating World, ukiyo in Japanese, conno...
Dimock Gallery, George Washington University
: Goya: Los Caprichos
The Caprichos have never been presented in its entirety in the Washington
area. Goya: Los Caprichos offers the most comprehensive overview of the
suite and provides a rare opportunity for examination by print aficionados and
art lovers.
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Brugge 2002 - Episcopal Seminary: Cloistered Worlds, Open Books: Medieval Manuscripts in Dialogue with Contemporary Art
The location alone - not a framework, but an integral part of the exhibition concept - makes a visit to 'Cloistered world, open books' a unique event. On the edge of Bruges city centre stands a former abbey built by the Cistercian monks of Ten Dui...
Tilton Gallery: Jiang Hu: Contemporary Chinese Art
The show’s title, Jiang Hu, can be literally translated as “rivers and lakes,” but its metaphoric meanings are rich and varied. It can denote a “wild or unsettled region,” or an idyllic fictional realm inhabited by itinerant outsiders, including s...
Julia Friedman Gallery: Pablo Helguera: Swan Song
In a 100-page book that constitutes one of the works in the exhibition, the
artist puts forth a theory of creativity based on the art of memory. While
loosely following the spirit of early XXth century manifestos, this theory
is rooted in a com...
J. Paul Getty Center: The Art of Giving in the Middle Ages
Gifts were an important part of the ceremony and diplomacy of medieval Europe, says
Thomas Kren, the Museums curator of manuscripts. They were used to secure the
...
Haus der Kunst: Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages
"The Torn First Pages" takes the viewer on a visual journey into the stories, lives and violent deaths of the protagonists of Burmese resistance virtually combining a poetic expressivity in image and language with the exploration of violence in it...
Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts: Valentina DuBasky: Mongolian Horses and Siberian Tigers - New Paintings on Paper and Canvas
She has written about these new pieces; "Ancient Mongolians worshiped "the clear blue sky," and in Mongolian and Chinese myth, horses appear as symbols of power, elegance and action. My paintings are inspired by field drawings made of Mongolian h...
Haus der Kunst: Carl Spitzweg: Travelling and Roaming in Europe and Der Glueckliche Winkel (Happy Corner)
The representative exhibition in the Haus der Kunst records Carl Spitzweg’s travels and makes their effects on his paintings visible. The travel themes were produced during the entire creative life of the artist and are therefore not placed in dir...
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