“Force of Stillness,” is a two-day festival that highlights the significant influence of Buddhism on contemporary art.“Force of Stillness” is a two-day festival of experimental films and performances highlighting Buddhism’s intersections with contemporary art.
Bob Dylan's oil painting, The Monk.Bob Dylan’s oil painting, The Monk. Bob Dylan’s just won the Nobel Prize for Literature — for his body of songwriting. Seems about right; this is, after all, a person of many talents. Which leads us to recall one less-appreciated Dylan art pursuit: painting. In October 2011, the exhibition Bob Dylan: The Asia Series, was […]
It’s fun! It’s visionary! It features Donald Trump as Yama Raja, the Lord of Death. It’s “The Comic Bardo Thodol” (aka The Tibetan Book of the Dead), as created and executed by writer/artist Thomas Scoville. How nice to see it making the rounds online again, since it’s now been posted on UltraCulture.org. It first surfaced […]
Heidi Minx explains Tibetan thangka (or, scroll painting) art, and why some of today’s top tattoo artists are enamored of this very special art form.
Minimalist artist Miya Ando has created a series of five mandalas to be auctioned online that will raise funds for the Tibetan Nuns Project.
George Saunders’s 2013 convocation address about kindness rang so universally true that it went viral, and then became a book.
In 2012, David Butow ventured to find the parallels between his work as a photojournalist and one of his most enchanting inspirations: Buddhism.
Bettina WitteVeen.Bettina WitteVeen’s art installation “When We Were Soldiers… once and young” runs from Sept 19 to Oct 24 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital.
The 2014 National Medal of Arts has been awarded to Buddhist artist Meredith Monk, “for her contributions as a composer, singer, and performer.”
Despite his penchant for gleeful violence, even Deadpool lived a life of non-violence for a time.
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