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Rubin Museum of Art

J. van Alphen; Beth Citron; Karl Debreczeny; David P. Jackson; Christian Luczanits; Elena Pakhoutova; Kathryn Selig Brown; Rubin Museum of Art

Collection Highlights: The Rubin Museum of Art features 108 works, an auspicious number in Tibetan culture with significance extending into Hinduism and even into popular Western culture that were chosen by the curatorial team to offer a sense of the geographic, cultural, and chronological breadth of the Museums holdings. Stunning visuals are accompanied by brief descriptions that will speak to both lovers of art from the Himalayan region and those who are new to this rich tradition. A special fold-out panel presents the Museums Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room. With contributions by Jan Van Alphen, Beth Citron, Karl Debreczeny, David Jackson, Christian Luczanits, Elena Pakhoutova, and Kathryn Selig Brown

Alphen, J. van, Beth Citron, Karl Debreczeny, David P. Jackson, Christian Luczanits, Elena Pakhoutova, and Kathryn Selig Brown. Collection Highlights: The Rubin Museum of Art. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2014.

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Jan Van Alphen is the former chief curator at the Rubin Museum of Art. He was also assistant curator of the India and Southeast Asia department at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, and in 1984 he became Asia curator in the Ethnographic Museum of Antwerp.

Beth Citron was previously the curator of modern and contemporary art at the Rubin Museum of Art. Her exhibitions for the Rubin Museum included Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Try to Altar Everything (2016), Francesco Clemente: Inspired by India (2014), Witness at a Crossroads: Photographer Marc Riboud in Asia (2014), and the three-part exhibition series Modernist Art from India (2011-13). She completed a PhD in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught in the Art History Department at New York University, from which she also earned a BA in Fine Arts.

Karl Debreczeny is senior curator, collections and research, at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. His research focuses on artistic, religious, and political exchanges between the Tibetan and Chinese traditions. His publications include The Black Hat Eccentric: Artistic Visions of the Tenth Karmapa (2012) and the coedited The Tenth Karmapa and Tibet’s Turbulent Seventeenth Century (2016). More →

David Jackson is a former curator at the Rubin Museum of Art. He is the author of A Saint in Seattle, Tibetan Thangka Painting, and A History of Tibetan Painting.

Christian Luczanits was a senior curator at the Rubin from 2010–2014. He studied Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, with a focus on art historical subjects. There he completed his PhD under the external supervision of the late Maurizio Taddei, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli.

Elena Pakhoutova is senior curator, Himalayan art, at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art and holds a PhD in Asian art history from the University of Virginia. She has curated several exhibitions at the Rubin, including Death Is Not the End (2023), The Power of Intention: Reinventing the (Prayer) Wheel (2019), and The Second Buddha: Master of Time (2018). More →