Baring a hidden Pasadena gem
Pacific Asia Museum, celebrating its 40th anniversary in Pasadena, may be one of the most overlooked cultural resources in Southern California. “People call it a ‘hidden gem,’" said Executive Director...
View ArticleFrom the archives: Sculptures, Paintings Eroded
The Getty Conservation Institute and China have agreed to collaborate on the conservation of China's two foremost sites of ancient Buddhist art, involving thousands of sculptures and miles of wall...
View ArticleChina's latest manned rocket mission to include spacewalk
China is scheduled today to launch its most ambitious space mission, including the program's first spacewalk, as this increasingly confident nation stakes a claim on the heavens while impressing people...
View ArticleJohn McCracken dies at 76; contemporary artist made geometric sculptures
John McCracken, an artist whose fusion of painting with geometric sculpture in the mid-1960s came to embody an aesthetic distinctive to postwar Los Angeles, died Friday in New York. He was 76....
View ArticleFar East treasures in San Francisco
Doris Duke. It's a mighty big name in philanthropic circles. The only child of tobacco and hydropower magnate James Buchanan Duke, she inherited his $80 million estate in 1925, when she was 12. The...
View ArticlePure Land Buddhism
Editor’s note: This is the seventh of an 11-part series on Buddhism. Â Philosophical Hinduism was based on the Upanishads, divinely revealed philosophical writings (shruti), which only men of the...
View ArticleBuddhism splinters
Editor’s note: This is the fourth of an 11-part series on Buddhism. Â When its founder dies, a religion tends to splinter, partly because would-be successors become rivals for leadership and power and...
View ArticlePure Land Buddhism
Editor’s note: This is the seventh of an 11-part series on Buddhism. Â Philosophical Hinduism was based on the Upanishads, divinely revealed philosophical writings (shruti), which only men of the...
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