Where There Is Suffering, There Is Art: Tibetan Artist Holds Solo Show in NYC

This weekend, a few dozen New Yorkers attended an event at Tibet House: an art tour by Tara Lobsang, a Tibetan artist born and raised in Tibet, educated in India, and now living in New York. The art exhibit, A Brush with Reality: Calligraphic Paintings of Tara Lobsang, opened last month and is currently on view at Tibet House. There is little in common between Lobsang and calligraphy. Calligraphy is an unforgiving art form that imposes strict limits on the boundaries within which the brush is al...