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☆ When the Rubin Museum Was Divine
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Guggenheim’s mother ship interior is such a thrill that it prepares you to love whatever’s on view. The interiors of the Frick and the Morgan are intimate enough to make you feel proprietarily, and fabulously, at home. The Rubin Museum of Art also has design and art going for it. Housed in what was once the women’s wear wing of Barneys New York, it retains the store’s six-story steel-and-marble spiral staircase, and turns spaces conceived for leisurely shopping into ideally scaled galleries. And the kind of art gathered in those galleries is, in its concentration, like nothing else in town.

Persons: Frick, Morgan Organizations: Rubin Museum of Art, Barneys Locations: Barneys New York, Himalayan Asia, India, China, Tibet

☆ Opinion | Mighty Shiva Was Never Meant to Live in Manhattan
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Erin Thompson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Museums have lots and lots of stuff,” I usually answer, fighting the urge to roll my eyes. Now Manhattan’s Rubin Museum of Art, which features art from the Himalayas, has announced that it will close later this year. But looted artifacts alone — removed from their original context, quarantined in an antiseptic display case — cannot do this. Unlike, say, Impressionist paintings or Pop Art sculptures, ritual objects were not meant to be seen in a gallery at a time of the viewer’s choosing. Used alongside music, scents and tastes, these holy relics are tools to help participants in rituals achieve a transcendent experience.

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☆ New York’s Rubin Museum is closing its doors — but will live on as a ‘museum without walls’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —New York’s Rubin Museum of Art, home to one of the world’s largest and most important collections of Himalayan art, announced on Wednesday that it will close its doors in October. Rubin Museum founders Shelley and Donald Rubin, pictured on October 8, 2015. Mireya Acierto/Getty Images“Building and sharing this collection of Himalayan art was one of my family’s great joys,” added Shelley Rubin. A lot of the time, we are shown Tibetan art as part of Chinese art — as an appendage because Tibet is now part of China. Robert K. Chin/Storefronts/AlamyThe closure will see some 40% of the Rubin’s staff lose their jobs — mostly those in “front-of-house roles,” a spokesperson for the museum told CNN.

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☆ Rubin Museum, Haven for Asian Art, to Close After 20 Years
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan will shutter after two decades of championing its prized collection of art from Himalayan Asia, with leaders saying on Wednesday that they wanted to envision a modern museum without walls. But the museum, which will sell its building, was also facing financial challenges and had become a focal point in recent discussions about the history of religious objects being looted from Asian countries. Doors to the Rubin Museum will close Oct. 6, when its last exhibition ends, before the institution transitions to a skeleton crew that will process long-term loans and research inquiries and help with fund-raising. “The definition of what a museum is has evolved dramatically in recent years,” Noah Dorsky, the museum’s board president, said in a statement. “Historically, the Rubin’s culture embraces continual change and evolution, and in our new incarnation, we are redefining what a museum can be.”

Persons: Jorrit Britschgi, ” Noah Dorsky, ” Organizations: Rubin Museum of Art, Rubin Locations: Manhattan, Himalayan Asia

☆ How an 11th-century monastery reclaimed artifacts from the US — and discovered a hoard of treasures in the process
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Hidden under years of dirt and grime in storage rooms, hundreds of precious religious objects have been rediscovered at a monastery in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. Until earlier this year, three of the sculptures were more than 7,500 miles away in New York’s Rubin Museum of Art, which specializes in Himalayan art, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like many of Nepal’s religious sites, Itumbaha is no stranger to the theft and looting of its relics and architecture. A 14th-century carving religious carving (top) that was returned to Itumbaha by New York's Rubin Museum of Art. But for Itumbaha’s leaders, the process of recovering these objects was not only about addressing historical injustice.

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