The National Museum of Asian Art has created an app that enables visitors to explore its Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room Courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Galvanised by the popularity of its online Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room and meditation podcasts amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York has cleared out its third-floor galleries to make way for an interactive Mandala Lab that invites visitors on a social and emotional journey to self-awareness.
The $1m project, which is expected to open in autumn 2021 and cater to families and school groups, is echoed by a variety of offerings at US museums with Himalayan art holdings that have struck a chord among people suffering from anxieties related to the coronavirus or to the US elections. From the Rubin to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (comprising the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery) in Washington, DC, to the Asian Art Museum
A Master Blend
East meets West in this grand 1916 Petersburg manse | Photos by Ansel Olson | Styling by Lauren Healy-Flora
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The homeowner bought the portrait of Petersburg native John Mingle Dunlap at an estate sale to keep him local.
It was an opportunity too good to pass up.
When the 1916 Colonial Revival house in her Petersburg neighborhood came on the market, the homeowner knew she had to act.
A lover of historic architecture and design, the homeowner was drawn to the houseâs stately and symmetrical exterior, the work of Norfolk architect Finlay F. Ferguson, whose firm also designed the original building for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.