36 posts tagged Interviews
A Fresh Approach
Turning junk and discarded objects into art offers more than just a new perspective
Reflecting on the First Year of the Itumbaha Museum
The president of the Keshchandra Mahavihar Conservation Society shares what they’ve learned and what’s ahead.
Listening to the Silence 
How solitude brings us into a deeper relationship with ourselves
The Bus Stops Here
Finding inspiration in community and daily life
Our True Nature of Mind
Harnessing the wisdom of emptiness to generate compassion
Can I Let Me Go?
On surrender and awakening
Behind the Scenes of the Development of the Itumbaha Museum
Rubin Museum Executive Director Jorrit Britschgi interviews Swosti Rajbhandari Kayastha, a scholar of Nepalese art and culture who serves as a lecturer of museum studies at Lumbini Buddhist University, about her role in the development of the Itumbaha Museum.
It Matters How You Are Born; It Matters How You Die
A birth doula and a death doula share how support helps people through major life transitions
On the Front Lines
Two medical professionals share how Himalayan art and practices helped during the pandemic.
Everything Is Life
How Conscious Dying Can Be a Form of Living
Finding the Divine in a Creative Life
Allyson Grey's secret writing and visionary art
Celestial Visions in Three Dimensions
How Pema Namdol Thaye builds mandalas, bringing cosmic realms to life
A Stunning Spectacle of Astonishing Things Happening
The renowned theater and opera director Peter Sellars discusses his passion for bringing a two-thousand-year-old Buddhist sutra to the stage
Intangible Connections Between You and Me: An Interview with Lee Mingwei
The artist reflects on the lasting impact of an early memory and his mother's gift
Pleasure, Power, and Sexual Liberation
A conversation on how we can use this cultural moment as an opportunity to liberate our collective conditioning around power, pleasure, gender, sexuality, and consent.
This Is Your Brain on Power
According to neuroscientist Sukhvinder Obhi, power is neither good nor bad—it's all in the way you use it
Hear Me Roar: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about #MeToo
How embracing the rising feminine can help bring our world into healthy balance
Accidentally on Purpose: Conversations with Monika Bravo and Youdhi Maharjan
Two artists who put commitment and belief at the heart of their practices
Out with the Old: New Power Is Here to Stay
Jeremy Heimans discusses social connections and dynamics in our brave, new hyperconnected world
A Tibetan Illuminated Manuscript
Two folios from a Tibetan illuminated manuscript in the Rubin Museum’s collection feature exquisite embossed calligraphy
Virtual Reality Is Buddhist: An Interview with Shezad Dawood
Linking together Buddhism, technology, art, and historical and speculative narratives
Time on Retreat
Three years, three months, and three days of silence
Doing Time
Twenty years behind bars
Time in Space
An astronaut's perspective from two hundred miles up
Because the Present Isn’t Enough: James Gleick on Time Travel
A Victorian meme touches down in the twenty-first century
Re-Figuring the Future with Morehshin Allahyari
An artist's take on the feminine future in the era of digital colonialism
Elevate Your Practice: Sound Baths, Sound Healing, and Mudras
Delve into meditative techniques beyond mindfulness
Music, Molecules, and the Middle Way
The musician reflects on songs, sounds, and silence
The Ear of the Beholder
What is the relationship between music and our brains?
Exploring Khandroma: Q&A with Soundwalk Collective
Behind the scenes of an ambitious sound installation

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