The Rubin Museum is awesome!
The Rubin Museum of Art features art of the Himalayas. I just left a talk at The Rubin with Sunil Pant, an openly gay Nepalese parliamentarian who’s advocating for gay marriage in Nepal. This was part of the series “OUT in the Himalayas”, sponsored in part by OUT magazine and In The Life TV.
I wish I had noticed this series earlier. This was a fantastic talk, and the talk about the third sex in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism last week was great. This was the inaugural year; the museum wants to do this next June, but they need support.
I want this series to continue next year (I only wish there was more than a Gay Pride month.) The Rubin really needs new members, or at least new prospectives. Please check out the website and sign up for their mailing list. Let them know that there’s interest for discussion about gay issues around the world. And, if you’re in NYC, go check them out. Right now, there’s an exhibition on death across cultures that I hope to have time to see over the next week. They have a movie series on Fridays; this week is Bonnie ad Clyde, and the original Wicker Man is up at the end of July. Admission to the museum is $10, the movies are either free or $7 bar minimum. I’m not even a museum person and I like this place, so check it out!
6/30/2010
I need to get a new look, and I need to change the format of this blog. The look of the blog will be a while coming (maybe I’ll do something this weekend, although the 4th is already spoken for) but I’ll do some shorter posts. The longer ones take tons of research, which turns me off of writing them – I’ve always loved doing the research, but hated writing the paper.
So stay tuned, it’s my season of change: the past two weeks I haven’t gone home right after work 2 days in a row. I’ve actually been going out to talks and movies and stayed away from my new apartment which has super-annoying neighbors and no A/C. Usually I don’t mind the latter, but when you can cut through the humidity with a knife, it’s nice to have a little cool air in your apartment.