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!
July 1st, 2010 at 11:23 am
I signed up, thanks for reminding me. Looking forward to Wicker Man. Also interested in Il Decameron and I racconti di Canterbury (assuming the latter isn’t at 10 AM…)