Podcasts and Video
Below you will find audio and video resources related to our collections and exhibitions.
The Rubin Museum of Art produces audio guides and podcasts to complement our exhibitions that highlight numerous objects on view and feature commentary by curators, scholars and other museum professionals. Below you will find links to our current audio tours and podcasts. For a complete list of our audio tours and podcasts please visit the Rubin Museum of Art's page on iTunesU.
The Rubin Museum of Art produces videos related to our collections and exhibition featuring curators, scholars, artists and special events. For more Himalayan art videos visit our pages on You Tube, Blip TV, Art Babble.
Current Audio Tours
Gateway to Himalayan Art
This keystone exhibition equips visitors with a working knowledge of the principal concepts of Himalayan art.
From the Land of the Gods:Art of the Kathmandu Valley
This audio tour takes visitors on a journey through this exhibition of stunning art from the Kathmandu valley.
Bardo: Tibetan Art and the Afterlife
This tour explores the transitional states between death and either the attainment of spiritual enlightenment or the return to the cycle of rebirth.
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond
On this audio tour curator Becky Bloom discusses the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum.
A British Life in a Mountain Kingdom: Early Photographs of Sikkim and Bhutan
Curator Becky Bloom, Art Historian Paul Sternberger, Photographer Tom Wool, and Educator Marcos Stafne discuss John Claude White's work.
Losang Gyatso Discusses Tradition Transformed
Contemporary Tibetan artist Losang Gyatso discusses how he is transforming tradition in his art. Produced for the exhibition Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond on view from June 11 to October 18, 2010. Runtime: 3:56
Tenzing Rigdol Discusses Tradition Transformed
Contemporary Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol discusses how he is transforming tradition in his art. Produced for the exhibition Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond on view from June 11 to October 18, 2010. Runtime: 3:38
The Known Universe
The Known Universe takes viewers on a trip from the Himalayas through the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is accurately modeled from the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas. The new film was created by the American Museum of Natural History for the exhibition Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, on view through May 2010. Runtime: 6 minutes
Jews and Buddhism: Belief Amended, Faith Revealed
A film by Bill Chayes and Isaac Solotaroff that examines the dramatic surge of interest among American Jews in the spiritual teachings of Buddhism, many of whom are among the leading expositors and scholars of Buddhism in America.
A film by Bill Chayes and Isaac Solotaroff. Original music by Jami Sieber Produced in cooperation with The Judah L. Magnes Museum. Narrated by Sharon Stone. To purchase a copy of the film please contact filmmaker Bill Chayes.
Runtime: 41 minutes
The Red Book of C. G. Jung
Guest curator Sonu Shamdasani introduces C.G. Jung's Liber Novus, commonly referred to as The Red Book. This video is featured in the exhibition The Red Book of C.G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology.
Runtime: 8 minutes
Tibetan Painting and Monastic Life
A film by Matthieu Ricard focusing on the art making process at Shechen Monastery in Tibet. Runtime: 7 minutes
Sand Mandala of Chakrasamvara
Lama Karma Tenzin creates a sand mandala in the theater gallery of the RMA. The mandala took over two weeks to create out of millions of grains of crushed marble and under 2 minutes to destroy. Lama Karma visited the RMA in conjunction with The Dragon's Gift - The Sacred Arts of Bhutan exhibition.
Runtime: 4 minutes
Tenzin Rigdol's Sand Mandala
Watch the destruction ceremony of a sand mandala created by contemporary artist Tenzin Rigdol in the RMA theater as part of the exhibition The Missing Peace: Contemporary Artists Reflect on His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Runtime: 9 minutes
Explorations at the Rubin Museum of Art
Composite film of some great things happening at the Rubin Museum of Art. Runtime: 7 minutes
Transformation: Building the Rubin Museum
An abbreviated version of a longer dicumentary following the transformation of the building which houses the Rubin Museum of Art.
Run time: 10 minutes
