Project Himalayan Art is the Rubin Museum’s largest and
wide-reaching institutional initiative to advance the field of
Himalayan Art globally.
With Buddhism and Tibet at the center of the cross-cultural
exchange of Tibetan, Himalayan, and Inner Asian art and
cultures, Project Himalayan Art offers comprehensive, introductory
resources for learning about Himalayan art. Its three
integrated components-the digital platform, traveling exhibition,
and publication-created in collaboration with international interdisciplinary scholars and artists are designed to support the inclusion of Himalayan
art into humanities teaching curricula on Asia in higher education. Elena Pakhoutova, who is co-leading the project at the Rubin, will present its potentials to expand the knowledge of Himalayan art and cultures to the students and faculty of Rangjung Yeshe Institute.
Elena Pakhoutova, Senior Curator, Himalayan Art, at the Rubin Museum of Art holds a PhD in Asian art history and criticism from the University of Virginia. Her background in Tibetan Buddhist studies informs her interdisciplinary approach to art history and curation. At the Rubin Museum, her thematic exhibitions introduce and contextualize Tibetan, Himalayan,
and Nepalese art and include The Second Buddha: Master of Time, which explored the rich visual, narrative, and living traditions centered on Padmasambhava. Her most recent cross-cultural exhibition Death Is Not the End explores death and afterlife through the art of Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity. She is co-leading (with Dr. Karl Debreczeny) the Rubin Museum’s Project Himalayan Art, which launched in February 2023. To explore Project Himalayan Art visit: projecthimalay...
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