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The Dragon's Gift
May. 4th, 2008 09:56 pmNo, not the title of a fantasy story.
This special exhibit at the Honolulu Academy of Arts is simply phenomenal. Indeed, it is overwhelming, such that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chibicharibdys came up to me when we were about 2/3s through and said, "I can't absorb any more; can we leave now?" We agreed that, since it's here for another three weeks and we get in free due to the family having museum membership, we would come back and finish another day before our brains melted due to the intense heat of iconographic overload.
The New York Times has an excellent article here on how the exhibit came about.
The painted and textile thangkas with their bright colors and complex imagery are particularly mind-blowing. And that's not even getting into the videos of the dance (unfortunately I missed the actual events that included actual Bhutanese monks actually dancing, more fool I).
It is touring to several other locations after it leaves Honolulu, but the only one I could find reference to is the Rubin Museum ? in New York.
If you have a chance to see this exhibit, do.
This special exhibit at the Honolulu Academy of Arts is simply phenomenal. Indeed, it is overwhelming, such that
chibicharibdys came up to me when we were about 2/3s through and said, "I can't absorb any more; can we leave now?" We agreed that, since it's here for another three weeks and we get in free due to the family having museum membership, we would come back and finish another day before our brains melted due to the intense heat of iconographic overload.The New York Times has an excellent article here on how the exhibit came about.
The painted and textile thangkas with their bright colors and complex imagery are particularly mind-blowing. And that's not even getting into the videos of the dance (unfortunately I missed the actual events that included actual Bhutanese monks actually dancing, more fool I).
It is touring to several other locations after it leaves Honolulu, but the only one I could find reference to is the Rubin Museum ? in New York.
If you have a chance to see this exhibit, do.