New York has a plethora of small art museums created, I suppose, by very rich collectors. Apparently there are big tax breaks for this, which is okay if you happen to live in New York. Luckily, I do. These aren't like the
Mitchell Museum of Early Iowan Thimbles, but real amazing art displays.
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This week-end we went to
The Rubin Museum of Art (RubinMuseum.org), which was astounding. It is primarily a Himalayan / Nepalese art museum with some great works.
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My favorite is a Temple interior in which many art pieces are there. But the best is that an audio guide tells you what everything is, why it is located where it is and what it means.
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Very cool.
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| The Buddhist Temple |
There was a temporary exhibit called Witness At The Crossroads, which was all about the travels in the mid-50s of a photojournalist who traveled from Turkey through the silk road through Iran, Afghanistan, India, China and Japan. His photograph was evocative of a moment when these lands were all reasonable open. Before wars in Afghanistan and the Cultural Revolution in China. It was very cool.
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| From the Witness At the Crossroads exhibit - Afghanistan's Khyber Pass |
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| Two of the five museum floors from the staircase |
