Elena Pakhoutova; Agnieszka Helman-Wazny; Rubin Museum of Art

This booklet is published in conjunction with the exhibition Illuminated: The Art of Sacred Books, organized by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York.

Pakhoutova, Elena, and Agnieszka Helman-Wazny. Illuminated: The Art of Sacred Books. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2012.

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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 →

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