FRIDAYS AT THE RUBIN

Free Friday

(after 7pm)

One wine or juice gets a ticket to see the film at 9:30

tonight Bertolucci classic "Before the Revolution"

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The Cafe

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The Gift Shop

 'Shambala Sun'

features Merideth Monk

 and more...

 This owl pillow toy in the window is charming

 Then up to the sixth floor to work my way down

taking only a few shots along the way

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 'Inspired By India'

Forty works on paper, 16 water colors and four new sculptures

by Francesco Clemente

 The Flag

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'The All-Knowing Buddha'

(A secret Guide)

 Believed to have been commissioned by an eighteenth century Mongolian patron

 Fifty four paintings presented to a Belgian missionary in the early 1920s

 by a young monk in inner Mongolia that he'd befriended

 What remained hidden from Western scholarship for decades was that

they offered a step by step illustrated guide to a Tibetan visualization practice

related to the Buddhist deity Sarvavid Vairochana, the All-knowing Buddha

Video documents and provides detailed notes 

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 'Witness at a Crossroads'

Marc Riboud's journey across asia during the 1950s and 1960s

more than a hundred photographs offer glimpses into everyday life in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, and Japan.

 Timeline

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'Repatriation collection'

 Bone carving

 Various forms of Mahakala

Painting on cloth

Mahākāla (Sanskrit) is a Dharmapala ("protector of dharma") in Vajrayana Buddhism, and a deity in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, particularly in the Vajrayana school. He is known as Daheitian (大黑天) in Chinese and Daikokuten (大黒天) in Japanese. Mahākāla belongs to the fourth hierarchy of deities.

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 Silk collage

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The Rubin Museum

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