We look at photographs of our family to reminisce and bring comfort. We enjoy photographs of friends for laughs or look at images of others in an unfortunate predicament to remind us that our own ...

There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” Any visitors going to the Met’s exhibition in search of ...

Afsheen Beig creates intricate and vibrant paintings, with a special focus on mandalas. Based out of her studio in Dubai, she draws inspiration from a diverse background in crafts, including henna, ...

Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal universe. Mandalas come in many forms. Often they are painted on scrolls and taken with travelers over long ...

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 ...

All art begins with a dot and when the dots are connected the line appears. It is the artist who makes the line his own and embarks on a personal creative journey. Bindu, also known as dapsa or ...

Imagine spending more than 30 hours painstakingly detailing an elaborate piece of art, finally perfecting the work, then destroying it merely hours later. That is what a group of seven Tibetan ...

Leeann Lidz has enjoyed creating artwork for more than 50 years. Three years ago, she delved deeply into another artistic endeavor: making mandalas. “Mandala speaks the language of the universe and ...