A pulsating light installation focuses the attention of visitors to the Mandala Lab. (Rafael Gamo/Courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Art and Peterson Rich Office) At the Mandala Lab, a new learning-based ...

The seven monks lined up in a row behind their mandala sand painting, a complex display of colors and shapes formed by millions of individual sand grains. Clad in maroon and gold robes, they let out a ...

An Interactive Space for Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning. The Mandala Lab, located on the Museum’s remodeled third floor, invites curiosity about our emotions. Consider how complex feelings ...

When visiting a stretch of Pacific coastline, there's a ritual that I often partake in. Sourcing whatever materials are available on the beach—seaweed, shells, rocks, feathers—I create the form of a ...

Visitors participate in a Mandala Lab experience (photo by Rafael Gamo, image courtesy the Rubin Museum of Art and Peterson Rich Office) Inspired by Buddhist principles, the Mandala Lab is a new space ...

Although the coronavirus pandemic has savaged cultural institutions around the world, museums across the U.S. are slowly reopening at reduced capacity. Still, it’s a perilous time for art and design ...

A mandala is much more than just a page in a coloring book; mandalas are geometric symbols with a great deal of meaning and symbolism. The word mandala comes from a Sanskrit word that loosely ...