Sacred Spaces at the Rubin Museum... and at home
This month, I had the fabulous and rarely attainable experience of spending a whole day in New York City. I treated myself, I luxuriated at Sephora for an hour and a half and I happened upon the Rubin Museum. I lived in the city for 15 years and fancied myself quite the Renaissance Woman, but really, I never visited as many museums as I would have hoped.
The Shrine Room is only one pinnacle of the Sacred Spaces exhibit.
I wandered in... and minutes later, found myself sitting in the most profound space I may have ever been witness to: the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room. The milieu was lulling, the music was soft and spiritual, the art was transfixing.
I felt super dorky taking pics, until I realized there were tons of tourists surreptitiously doing so... and I wanted to show a pic to my kids. (Even on my "day off," they are all I think about.)
Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddist Shrine Room. Photo: Rubin Musem
The Shrine Room is only one pinnacle of the Sacred Spaces exhibit.
The other is the Collected Spaces interactive installation, which is comprised of a giant bowl of tiny cards listing visitors' favorite spaces, and an Instagram account chronicling every single solitary one.
Of course, despite feeling super high on my own self for taking time to visit a high-falootin Asian art museum in the city, my card said "at home snuggling the kids."
Xx, Mom in Mascara
