The Rubin Museum of Art has launched the eighth issue of its annual free publication, Spiral, a magazine at the intersection of art, science, and Himalayan cultures. Spiral asks big questions at the center of our shared human experience. The newest issue, titled Reframe, is inspired by Buddhist thinking and ideas on non-attachment. It invites readers to consider what possibilities arise when we examine and release our attachments to stories, beliefs, or identities that no longer serve us. With four areas of focus—release, reframe, reimagine, and realize—the magazine looks at attachment from the perspectives of a Buddhist teacher, social neuroscientist, and others, as well as highlights voices of people who have detached from the status quo or inherited belief systems so they can radically reimagine and recreate what our world could be. The print edition is now available and the digital version with extra content is accessible online.
In the Reframe issue readers can discover how the Buddhist concept of non-attachment conveys a transformative reorientation with distinguished scholar of Buddhism and East Asian religions Anabella Pitkin; explore the mechanisms of AI as Dr. Joy Buolamwini unpacks the human biases built into its systems; read London-based artist Yangdzom Lama describe the process of creating Meltdown Samsara, a deeply personal painting inspired by Tibetan Buddhist concepts; learn attachment theory through the lenses of psychology and social neuroscience from Dr. Pascal Vrtička; and see newly commissioned illustrations from artist IMAGINE (a.k.a. Sneha Shrestha) for this issue’s director’s letter and a series of personal stories about people who experienced radical shifts in their perspective.
Additional contributors include Khandro-La, Tenzin Gelek, Yuria Celidwen, Sonya Renee Taylor, adrienne maree brown, Elena Pakhoutova, Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee, Tsewang Lhamo, Jonathan Dickinson, Antonella Lumini, Patrizia de Libero, Jon Pepper, Howard Kaplan, Chime Lama, Huatse Gyal, Arun Ayyagari, Chime Dolma, Prithvi Shrestha, Rithika Merchant, K. Whiteford, Victoria Topping, Anuj Shrestha, Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu, and Ruth Chan.
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