NEW YORK, NY.- With the support of a three-year, $270,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, Dr. David Jackson—the world’s foremost scholar of Tibetan Buddhist painting and a consulting curator for the Rubin Museum—will publish a new series of exhibition catalogues on Tibetan thangka paintings drawn primarily from the museum’s collection. This is the second grant awarded to the Rubin Museum from the foundation; in 2007 the foundation supported the exhibition Bon: The Magic Word and its catalogue. Chief Curator of the Rubin Museum of Art Jan van Alphen expressed the museum’s gratitude to the Henry Luce Foundation for its commitment to Asian art historical scholarship saying, “The foundation’s continued support of the museum’s efforts to share ground-breaking research on the art and culture of Tibet will lead to greater appreciation for, and understanding and preservation of, an endange