In a high-ceilinged gallery early Sunday afternoon, dozens of people crowded behind rope cordoning off a table, craning their heads as a monk in deep crimson robes cleared away bowls of brightly ...

CORTEZ – The Navajo for generations have created sand paintings for use in sacred ceremonies. Diné artist Bento Yazzie has a unique take on the art form, but he struggles to describe what it’s like to ...

They don’t last as long as oils or watercolors, except in photographs, but Joe Mangrum’s sand paintings are treasured art works. The New York City artist strapped on his knee pads early Sunday morning ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery in southern India will construct a mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies August 14–18 at Asia Society Texas Center. During this ...

DANBURY -- The chants of the Buddhist monks -- with their eerie bass throat notes, the rhythmic patterns that evolve as the chant progresses, the interjected clash of cymbals -- echoed through the ...

The seven monks lined up in a row behind their mandala sand painting, a complex display of colors and shapes formed by millions of individual sand grains. Clad in maroon and gold robes, they let out a ...

There are works of art at the Crow Museum of Asian Art on the University of Texas at Dallas campus that date back centuries. The piece that's being created in the museum lobby this week is not meant ...

Houston, Texas, July 17, 2015 — Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies August 20-23 in Asia Society Texas Center’s ...

Living so close to many of California’s most famous beaches, residents of Los Angeles get a lot of one-on-one face time with sand. However, when it comes to the white, grainy stuff, the true experts ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting Sept. 16 through 19 in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Of all the artistic ...

Viral sand artist James Sun talks about this insanely cool form of art and what he’s created for HEAT Nation. How did you first get into creating these amazing art pieces using just sand?! It’s a ...