The Big Ideas: Ritual and Redemption

In this moment of unprecedented change, our desire for revelatory insights is stronger than ever before. Art as ritual—striving for the sublime through the creative process—can be a pathway to redemption, leading to the transformative experience that we so desperately crave. These are artists who embrace the ritualized power of performance. They invite us into their process and take us to a deeply imaginative place, one that we don’t access often enough in our overscheduled lives. Their desire—and ours—is not simply knowledge or awareness, but experience and enlightenment.

Exhibitions

Irreverent Contemporary Nordic Craft Art

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

Performance

Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes

Pappa Tarahumara

David Roussève/Reality

Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company

Ronald K. Brown

Film/Video

Taylor Mead in Person

Spiritual Cinema: A Listener's Tale

Cinekink

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Public Programs

Community Conversations

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