I made a Top Ten Shows of 2010 list as a response to Jerry Saltz's Top Ten list he posted in New York Magazine and reposted on his Facebook page. Why not?
Two amazing gallery shows in NYC are running right now, showcasing the diversity of art from traditional Eastern Buddhist cultures, and how Buddhist art changes depending on the society that contains it. (And they're cheap! One's always...
A quick nudge today: go see Saint Misbehavin' at the IFC in New York City if you can.
A documentary biography of Wavy Gravy, born Hugh Romney, a clown, activist, commune leader, Woodstock veteran, and more-or-less awesome dude.
I knew...
This podcast features an interview between IDP Member Kate Johnson and Spring Washam. They discuss their personal practice, and how race plays a role in American Buddhist communities.
Tibetan Buddhist practice uses a lot of visualization practice. First words of Hans Rosling's presentation: "Visualization is right at the heart of my own work, too."
But Hans Rosling is a Swedish professor of public health....
I usually have a good Thanksgiving. This year was no different, although it had a quiet and sad quality to it, since I wasn't celebrating with the same person I was so thankful to gobble gobble with last year, which is going to take a bit more...
This podcast features a lecture by David Nichtern titled "Awakening From The Daydream --- The Wheel of Life." It was recorded on October 28th, 2010 in New York City.
In his essay, Instructions for the Cook, Zen Master Dogen encourages us to use all the ingredients of our life. Koshin Paley Elliso explores Zen Master Dogen's discussion with a cook eight hundred years ago in China and how it is both...
This post is the most biased I've attempted in a while. I love Luc Tuymans' paintings. L-O-V-E them. His show, Corporate, is now up at David Zwirner Gallery.
Look at this one:
The colors dance, yellow is yellow, and green is green, and they become a new color when they mix, and that new color dances with another -- and it goes on...and on...
Thanks to the New York Times for introducing me to this one, another great by the great Mary Oliver, published on Sunday, 11/7, under "Poems for Fall."
Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness
After a week of the flu GESA vs. SSA is back. This week let's take a look at Gedi Sebony @ Greene Naftali. This comes as a recommendation from a very good friend of mine. Here're some images and the press release from the exhibition....
Western Buddhists, of course, aren't the only ones working with 21st-century Buddhism; Asian Buddhists and artists are too, albeit in an very different context. Buddhist imagery and practice have a much larger and more historically dominant...
This podcast features a lecture and discussion at IDP Austin with Ethan Nichtern and Dr. Michael Uebel in which they discuss self-aggression and self-loathing as it relates to Buddhist practice and philosophy.
