If you use your difficulties to create art, says Ruth Ozeki, it will give them meaning.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria explores relationship between Buddhism and contemporary art
The Canadian gallery’s project will focus on artists who have heavily drawn on Buddhism in their art, including Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic, John Cage, and Tenzing Rigdol.
“The Scorpion Gesture” bridges past and the future at the Rubin Museum
The interactive exhibition, based on the Buddhist figures Padmasambhava and Maitreya, takes traditional Buddhist imagery in radical new directions.
Artist installs sculptures made of fog in Boston parks
Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya sculpts imperamence in fog.
10,000 Buddhas and Counting
Inspired by ancient Buddhist artwork on cave walls, Amanda Giacomini set out on a mission to paint 10,000 Buddhas all over America. Lilly Greenblatt tells her story.
Buddhist monk to lead meditation at New York’s Museum of Modern Art
This week, Therevada Buddhist monk Bhante Suddhaso will lead a group of New Yorkers in meditation at the city’s Museum of Modern Art.
Famous street artist “invades” Bhutan with Buddhist-inspired mosaics
The French street artist “Invader” recently installed eleven mosaic artworks in Bhutan inspired by Buddhism and Buddhist culture.
Rock garden made of sugar memorializes Japanese Canadian forced labor on sugar farms
The garden, made of granulated beet sugar, pays tribute to the experience of Japanese Canadians forced to work on sugar beet farms.
National Gallery of Australia unveils giant sculpture of sleeping Buddha covered in of Western figures
The 18-meter-long Buddha and the figures sitting on it are reconstructions of classical works.
Wabi Sabi Is Imperfect Beauty
Photo by Liza Matthews.Wabi sabi — a philosophy with roots in Zen tea ceremonies — posits that beauty lies in what is flawed.