November 2013 archive

Rubin Museum Experience

I have to say, of all the museums I have been to, the Rubin Museum is the smallest. What I found really amazing was the design of the museum itself, so that when you look up from the beginning of the stairs, the ceiling looks like a human eye. I also liked walking through the …

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Rubin Museum

Huh. This museum trip was quite an interesting one. Honestly, I actually expected this museum to be a gigantic museum all fancy and famous. Well, it probably fits the criteria being ‘fancy’ and ‘famous’, but it certainly didn’t seem large, like the Museum of Natural History. When I first went in, I didn’t expect to …

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Rubin Museum

Before our visit last Thursday, I was unfamiliar with the Rubin Museum. I had planned to visit the museum on my own one day because of my love for museums and the Rubin Museum’s correspondence with Baruch College. I practice Buddhism myself and it was intriguing to see Buddhism in the light of a different …

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Rubin Museum

When I first go in there, there was this artistic staircase. So I thought this is going to be a museum full of arts from all over the world. However, it turns out that it’s mostly arts from the Himalayas. There were many little statues of gods and goddesses. To be honest, I don’t see …

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A Scholarly Trip to the Rubin Museum of Art

It was nice to know that there are an increasing amount of people who are appreciating a broad range of cultures despite their seemingly contradictory practices and beliefs. From the brief overview that Shanima gave us at the first floor of the spiral staircase, the founder of the museum was an affluent white man named …

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Rubin Museum of Art

Our trip to the Rubin Museum was a nice and enlightening break from our college work. I had expected many sculptures and painting exhibits, but what faced us was mainly art from the Himalayas. It was interesting to be immersed in a different culture other than the American culture that we’re all familiar with and …

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Rubin Museum

The exhibits at the Rubin Museum were different from what I had expected. I expected abstract art but instead the museum focused on Himalayan art. The numerous figures of the gods and goddesses were familiar because they were similar to Buddha. The minor differences of the appearance, power, and symbolization of the gods from Buddha …

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