Sikhs in San Jose, California, held an art therapy event for Sikh children at the Sikh Gurdwara Sahib San Jose on Sunday. Read more about the motivation behind the event to help children express their feelings about the tragedy.
Categories: Art, Hate Crimes, Picture of the Day • Tags: art therapy, Children, Gurdwara, hate crimes, Oak Creek, San Jose, Sikh Gurdwara Sahib San Jose, Wisconsin
In response to my recent post “Why is this man wearing a turban?“, friend and colleague Lori Way writes: I liked your recent post about Jan van Eyck’s Man with the Red Turban. The turban was, at that time, considered commonplace for artists to wear. Not only did it keep artistic media out of one’s hair while in the studio, but it also came to be known as a status symbol. Here is a website that has a little more information […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Europe, Jan van Eyck, Lori Way, Man With The Red Turban, Renaissance, Turban
Hargobind Khalsa is a member of the band Hargo, and was recently interviewed by NBC’s San Diego affiliate to talk about his influences and musical style: AH: How does your religious and cultural background come to play in your music? HK: Growing up Sikh, I was surrounded by Indian music and a lot of ’60s and ’70s folk (a bunch of the “white Sikhs” like my parents who had converted to Sikhism were hippies and into that whole folk scene), […]
Categories: Art, Profiles • Tags: Hargo, Hargobind Khalsa, San Diego
Teju Cole, in The New Inquiry, asks of the above painting (which predates Sikhism): Why is this man wearing a turban? The gray-eyed gaze of the man in the painting is a dare. Show me who’s done it better, he seems to say. Didn’t think so, he adds. I am not well-versed in analyzing works of art. However, it does appear that the man in the painting is also making another statement:
Categories: Art, Picture of the Day • Tags: Jan van Eyck, Man in Turban, Teju Cole, The New Inquiry
Earlier this year, San Francisco, California’s Asian Art Museum hosted the exhibit Maharaja: The Splendor of India’s Royal Courts. While this exhibition has closed on the west coast, those on the east coast of the United States now have the opportunity to enjoy the Maharaja exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia: The first exhibition to explore the extraordinarily rich visual culture of India’s last royal families, Maharaja: The Splendors of India’s Great Kings spans the period […]
Categories: Art, Events • Tags: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Maharaja, Maharaja: The Splendor of India's Great Kings, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Harjeet Singh Sandhu owns a sign-making business in New York, but his passion is his art: Sandhu, a 63-year old artist and signmaker in the Bronx, has crafted an artful mosaic portrait of Mayor Bloomberg that he wants to present to Hizzoner. “He is my mayor,” Sandhu said. “Some things he does, sometimes people don’t like it. But I think what he does for the city is very good.” It took Sandhu five months of carefully crafting each piece of […]
Categories: Art, Picture of the Day • Tags: Bronx, Harjeet Singh Sandhu, Michael Bloomberg, New York
Showcasing the story of the Punjabi American and South Asian migration to the United States is a valuable and needed resource for current and future generations. I congratulate all the individuals and families along with the Punjabi American Heritage Society of Yuba City for their dedication and hard work for the successful completion of this project. — California Governor Jerry Brown (as quoted in the Punjabi American Heritage Society press release) on the opening of the Becoming American exhibit at […]
Categories: Art, Picture of the Day • Tags: Becoming American, California, Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County, Fresno, Jerry Brown, Maharaja, Punjabi American Heritage Society, San Francisco, Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab, Yuba City
A recent “Picture of the Day” post on this blog showcased the artwork of Dr. Peter Bulow, who sculpts portraits of people he encounters while commuting on the subway in New York. As luck would have it, Dr. Bulow commented on that post and provided interesting background: I was born in India, in Rurkhela, Orissa, and though I have never been back to Orissa I feel drawn to India and to its people. After medical school I volunteered as an […]
Categories: Art, Picture of the Day • Tags: clay, Jackson Heights, New York, Peter Bulow, sculpture, subway
While many commuters occupy their time on transit in books, on the phone, or absorbed in their mobile devices, New York psychiatrist Peter Bulow engages in the world around him by sculpting the faces he sees during his commute on the subway. One of these sculptures was of a Sikh gentleman he encountered who later showed up in Bulow’s office: One of the people Bulow saw and sculpted on the A train was a Sikh man wearing a turban. The […]
Categories: Art, Picture of the Day • Tags: clay, New York, Peter Bulow, sculpture, subway
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