AsiaAlive: Tibetan Sand Mandala Demonstration, August 16 - 19, 2012
Asian Art Museum
This August, six Tibetan Buddhist monks will travel to San Francisco from the Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery in South India to create a sand mandala for the Asian Art Museum. Over four days, they will meticulously apply powdered pigments to a geometric mandala outline. When they are finished, the monks intend that the sand mandala will generate positive effects that radiate over the entire region.
Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories, July 28 - November 4, 2012
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From July 28 through November 4, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the work of one of Japan's most important contemporary photographers in the exhibition Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories.
Fiber Futures x 1: Japan's Textile Pioneers, July 20 - October 6, 2012
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
This exhibition explores a new art that is emerging from a remarkable fusion of Japanese artisanal and industrial textile making. Coaxed from materials as age-old as hemp and newly developed as microfilaments, a varied array of works by artists from multiple generations are on view in this important two-part exhibition.
Exhibition: Movement In Many Parts, July 13 - September 28, 2012
Asian Resource Center Gallery
Presented by Kearny Street Workshop and East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, Movement In Many Parts explores systems of human infrastructure — through the architectural, ecological, biological, political, industrial, and fantastical — and the way we organize ourselves as a society.
Himalayan Pilgrimage: Liberation Through Sight, June 8 - Nov 25, 2012
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The journey of Himalayan Pilgrimage continues with Liberation Through Sight, a reinstallation that focuses on artworks created as vehicles to enlightenment. New art in the recently reinstalled gallery includes an exceptionally rare set of seven paintings depicting the lineage of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama, painted around 1815 upon the death of the ninth Dalai Lama, as well as images of compassionate and wrathful deities of the Tibetan pantheon.
