At the Rubin Museum, East Meets West in the Land of Death

In pairing fairly emblematic works from two distinct systems of faith, the curator of ‘Death Is Not The End’ seeks to ‘highlight a universal common ground’ around what comes after life.

Via the Rubin Museum of Art; photo by David De Armas
‘A Table Decorated With Dancing Skeletons,’ Tibet, 18th century. Via the Rubin Museum of Art; photo by David De Armas

God, we have been told, is in the details, but isn’t the same true of his nemesis? A cursory internet search shows that the modernist architect Mies Van Der Rohe is attributed as the primary source for both versions of the truism. Don’t forget, too, that a former House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, ever the political animal, cited both the satanic and the heavenly as being ingrained within the finer points of legislation. The otherworldly has its hands in everything.

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