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 ...

Slippery when wet: Those words of caution may be most familiar in the context of hospital and airport floors, but they also apply to porch stairs and backyard decking. So the next time you undertake a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CARBONDALE ” Crystal River Elementary School students know him as the guy who keeps their classrooms clean and soap dispensers full. But Mitchell Silas has a colorful story to tell ” not with words, ...

A Tibetan Buddhist monk will demonstrate the ancient art of sand mandala painting this week at Loyola University of Chicago. Lama Ngawang Choejor, a Tibetan Buddhist monk of the Gelugpa Order, will ...

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 ...

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 ...