Rubin Museum Lends 42 Himalayan Artworks to National Palace Museum Taiwan for Major Exhibition

Key facts

• 42 artworks from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art are on view at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan Southern Branch.
• 41 of the 42 Rubin loans have never before been exhibited in Asia.
• The exhibition Crossing the Himalayas: An Artistic Odyssey runs through April 8, 2027.
• The Rubin is the largest lender, with additional loans from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and Taiwanese collections.
• Key Rubin loans include Four Mandalas of the Vajravali Cycle (1429–1456), Buddha Ratnasambhava with Wealth Deities (early to mid-14th century), and a 14th-century Green Tara sculpture.
• Rubin Senior Curator Karl Debreczeny wrote object entries for all 42 loans, to be published in a bilingual Chinese-English catalog.
• The exhibition includes videos from the Rubin’s digital platform Project Himalayan Art.
• Debreczeny presented the talk “Landscapes of the Divine: Tibetan and Chinese Painting Traditions in Dialogue” as part of the programming.
• This is the Rubin’s largest engagement in Asia to date, supporting its decentralized model.
• Rubin works are also on long-term loan at the Brooklyn Museum and Seattle Art Museum, and its traveling exhibition Gateway to Himalayan Art opens at the University of Southern California Pacific Asia Museum in October.