12 thoughts on “Arts at Baruch”

  1. So I went to the Rubin museum yesterday, and I liked it a lot !
    It is a rather small museum, but pretty interesting.
    On the 2nd floor, you can see Himalayan Art ( Nepal, Tibet, India, Mongolia, China) My favorite thing in the entire museum is on the 2nd floor, the Tibetan Shrine room. It is a room with very small light, tibetan music, and it is very peaceful. I felt like I was not in New York anymore, and I would have loved to spend the afternoon there !!!
    The 3rd floor is dedicated to Art of the Kathmandu valley
    The 5th floor ( the 4th is currently closed to the public) ” embodying the holy” is dedicated to different religions. I really liked the amulets and the reliquaries, they were very beautiful. They are defined by : ” metal containers symbolically shaped and more or less embellished” Their function is to hold a fragment of a sanctified or holy object.
    At last, on the 6th floor you will find The Nepalese legacy in Tibetan Painting.

    I liked that museum. it is not the kind of museum I usually go to, so I am happy we have to go, because it made me discover something I wouldn’t have otherwise

  2. I went to the Rubin Museum today and I must say, I’ve never really been to exhibits for one specific thing before. I’ve visited the AMNH many times, but never a small museum like this.

    I enjoyed it to an extent. There were many idols of deities with names that I couldn’t for the life of me remember, dozens of paintings of the same deities with vibrant colors, and even a small Tibetan shrine. I was somewhat disappointed that there was little to no architecture related information there and I was actually looking forward to learning about Himalayan architecture, particularly the designs of the temples. From my prior knowledge, I know that the temples are meaningful in every aspect, just like hindu temples.

    I took some pictures, but the fifth and sixth floor didn’t allow photography and I’m feeling tired so I will post the pictures some other time.

  3. going in the Rubin museum it was really nice!! i liked it because i learned and saw a lot of new things,pictures,paintings.i liked a lot the small room.it was very nice staying in the light of the candles and with the relaxing music in the background.it wasn’t allow to take pictures,but i thought it would be sad not to have a picture from that place.and another thing that i liked it was the comparison between the east and west religion,and it was amazing how was reflected the difference,such as the colors,or the Budha’s and Jesus Christ’s positions.it was nice and helpful for me ,because now i wanna enlarge more my knowledges going to other nice museums like the Rubin one.

  4. I went to the Rubin Museum and I thought it was incredible! It was so big! and it had soo many things in there. My favorite floor was the fourth floor with all the paintings and the colors. There was one painting or photograph: Atta Kim it was a glass painting of the city it looked isolated like there was no one in times square, there were no cars and such they were like invisible bt you could see the lights of the cars it was like a blend or something. The first thing we went to was the Tibetan shrine room. It was so pretty and it was so calm and relaxing, as soon as we stepped in we heard a chant and as we stepped out we couldn’t hear anything!
    I also saw the painters tools and they were soo colorful, they used different powers to paint on a cloth. Again on the fourth floor there was a painting called: The carmoin von wiegand it was SOOO incredible colorful and it was soooo pretty. The third floor had all these different structures and models of different Tibetan warriors or gods. Some of them were really pretty and others kinda scared me a little…haha
    the fifth and the sixth floor kinda looked the same, it was all basically paintings that resembled something. I think it was on the third floor that they actually provided magnifying glasses for us to see what is in the paintings up close. Although it wasn’t all that useful…
    Overall, I really liked the museum, it’s not a museum that I would go to on my own, but I’m actually pretty glad that I went.

  5. Today I went to the Rubin Museum of Art to look at the Himilayan art. It had some very interesting pieces that I liked quite a bit. In particular the picture that caught my eye was the 8 hour exposure of Times Square. I liked how the billboards and the buildings stayed perfectly clear in the picture but the cars appeared as dots because of the headlights/taillights reflecting light off of them. Another thing that caught my eye was the process of creating a brass statue. The pictures of the process were very interesting and the piece itself was broken down into its parts which I thought was very interesting also.

  6. Rubin Museum was awesome. Althoguh it was not so big,it contains lots of literatures of diferent countries and religions. It gave me a mental gratification about art and i feel so good to see the paintings about religions, cause i’m a christian. Things about the Nepal attracted me, i’ve never known about the country before and others are also good to appreciate.If i have time i ‘d like to go there again and see some concerts there.

  7. I went to the Rubin Museum this thursday and we happened to meet Tashi one of the panelist from the Charles Li workshop. She was really nice and she encouraged us to appreciate the art in the museum. I found the museum to have a lot of interesting art. Some of the things I found to be the most interesting were the tibetan shine room,the Nepalese technique of hollow metal casting and the Atta Kim paintings and photographs. The tibetan shine room was a very peaceful small room to me it seemed a place good for meditation and praying. The Nepalese technique of hollow medal casting was a demonstration of the process to make the beautiful metal figures of the gods that where on display that really impressed me. And finally on the fourth floor I saw many painting and photographs on the fourth floor. There were two that caught my attention were a photograph of an ice sculpture and the photograph of an isolated times square. I really enjoyed my visit at the Rubin Museum of Art.

  8. I went to the Ruben museum a while ago, but forgot to write about it. Although it was interesting, and had a lot different thinks in it, I didn’t really enjoy it. Its not that it wasn’t cool, its just that I’m not interested in those type of things. The TIbetan shrine room was pretty cool and so were the many pictures. However, I feel like there were way too many of them. It was truly overwhelming. The part about how bronze’s were made were pretty interesting as well. I worked in an antique shop over the summer and worked with bronzes on a daily basis, so it was pretty cool to see how they were made. All in all, my visit to the museum was interesting, but I wouldn’t do it again.

  9. I went to Rubin Meseum of Art today. It is a small meseum which is about Himalayan art. In this meseun, I saw some Himalayan painting, picture, sculptures. Most of painting are about a religion. It seems to be buddhist. Even though I did not take any picture of them, I learned HImalayan art and culture.

  10. Upon going to the Rubin Museum i was actually really uninterested. I do love art and i love the museums in the city and really do appreciate the artwork that inhabits these museums however i was just not in the mood to go through countless floors of art art art. The Rubin Museum surprised me however. It was a lot better than i anticipated and the rush-filled mood that i was expecting never came, instead a tranquil calm environment embraced my presence. I believe this mood comes from the basis of what the museum is based off which i believe is the Himalayas and Buddhist culture. The many Gold statues that are part of the collection as well as the many intriguing exhibits of Buddhist and Tibetan art and religious culture really struck me and really worked my mind. If i was asked to go again or even bring or try to persuade others to go i would definitely take that opportunity.

  11. Museums aren’t really my thing. I get bored too quickly in museums or I am not interested at all to begin with. However, I really enjoyed The Rubin Museum of Art. I think what contributed to me liking the whole visit was Tashi walking us through the museum layout first. She was really passionate about the museum and really wanted us to enjoy our visit. Tashi told us what to expect on each floor and my favorite was the 4th floor with all the pictures from an artist named Atta Kim and the Tibetan Shrine on the 2nd floor.
    I really liked the shrine because it was totally unexpected. You couldn’t hear the chanting until you were inside the room and it was filled with many buddhas. It was interesting to see the buddhas in one place at once because you can see the similarites and differences.
    I liked the 4th floor because it was a more modern view on Tibetan art. My favorite pictures was the snapshots of 100 Tibetan men and 100 Tibetan women super-imposed on one another, therefore creating one face, and the 8 hour exposure of Times Square. It was kind of depressing to see Times Square so abandoned because it is always full of people and lights everytime I go by.
    Another thing I liked most in the museum was the little stautes. I am amazed at how the artists that created them could work the beautiful details into such a small statue. Some of the stautes were smaller than my palm and were so pretty and detailed.

  12. I liked the museum! It was a little too religion-y for me but other than that it was very interesting. My favorite floor was the modern art, 4. The main artist who superimposed all of those pictures made it look so cool, I would love to have that photo of Times Square hanging on my wall. I thought the Tibetan faces were amazingggggggg. To put together hundreds of faces like that and make one image just blew my mind because you would never be able to tell.

    The 2nd and 6th floors were a little boring to me because it was all about religion which can be very interesting but, eventhough I hate to say this, a lot of the pieces kind of looked the same to me. It didn’t catch my attention very well.

    However, the Tibetan shrine room was beautiful and full of gold and obviously valuables. I think I learned about other religions just by noticing some of the themes in the art like many gods, the importance of teachers and the hierarchy in society. Also, a lama is a spiritual diety!

    Some things that I found interesting were the gods on display who seemed to have many arms, as if they were more than a human and they were able to provide many things. I liked that each diety had an animal-like companion, it kind of reminded me of how a dog is a man’s best friend. The bright colors of the works really made me want to keep looking at their detail. Especially on the 5th floor, the wood work was so well painted! The connection between Christianity and Buddhism was a nice little touch to the museum which seemed to be so based on Buddhism.

    Some things I disliked were the nature pieces on the 4th floor with the rice, pollen and milk. I thought that was just weird and didnt really enjoy it. I would’ve liked to see more about the postures and poses of the gods and goddesses rather than their connection to religion. The display on the postures and poses was extremely helpful when viewing the rest of the artwork.

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