NEW YORK, April 17, 2017 — Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York, provides an inside look at the Tibetan thangka paintings on ...

Renaissance artists in Europe sometimes relied on a technique, known as secco, that is roughly analagous to the Tibetan one. Interestingly, when creating their own wall paintings, Renaissance ...

Last week, Asia Society Museum showcased the rich, vibrant, Tibetan paintings discovered by Italian academic and explorer Giuseppe Tucci to American audiences for the first time in the exhibition ...

Xiong Wenbin, ed, Tibetan Culture and Art, China Intercontinental Press, Beijing, December 1996. 17 pp. Color illus. 19.5 ×1 9.5 cm. ISBN 7-80113-177-0. Tibet Photographic Albums Series.

When restoration work began in Lo Monthang's Thubchen monastery in 2001, the once-vivid colors of its wall paintings appeared dull and grimy, trapped behind 500 years of smoke, soot, and grease ...

Often known as the happiest country in the world, Bhutan – a nation tucked away in the Himalayan mountains – is home to thousands of priceless thangka paintings. Thangkas are Tibetan ...

my PhD topic is kind of tangential to my interest in Tibetan and Himalayan art. I have been able...to use some of the research that I have done into pashmina fiber—where it comes from ...