By Holland Carter
Rubin Museum of Art, one of the biggest-thinking small museums in town. The Rubin is devoting its entire 2018 season and all six floors of galleries to time as a theme, with an accent on the future, a future which is making some of us nervous these days. If you’re a Buddhist — and much of the historical art at the Rubin is Buddhist, from the Himalayas — time is an especially complex subject because it’s not linear. It’s layered and cyclical, with past, present and future snarled up together. And that’s the way the Rubin presents it. [More]
The Rubin Museum of Art: "The Future" (Through Jan. 7, 2019); 150 West 17th St, New York, NY; (212) 620-5000; rubinmuseum.org
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“Adventures of the White Beryl,” part of Chitra Ganesh’s series The Scorpion Gesture. |