Bamiyan Valley in 2010, with the hole where one of the Buddha statues was demolished (photograph by Afghanistan Matters/Wikimedia) After a reconstruction effort covertly built what appeared to be the ...

Come spring 2026, New Yorkers strolling the High Line will encounter a new, towering neighbor with a backstory that stretches ...

A 27-foot Buddha sculpture will be installed on Manhattan's High Line in spring 2026 as a nod to the Bamiyan Buddhas.

This month the two sixth-century Buddhas of Bamiyan demolished in Afghanistan were temporarily returned to their towering places in the Bamiyan cliffs through 3D projection. A 3D projection of one of ...

A towering, 27-foot-tall statue of Buddha will stand on Manhattan’s High Line next year as a new art installation in the elevated city park. Named “The Light That Shines Through the Universe,” the ...

The High Line in New York has selected artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen to produce its next plinth commission, scheduled to open next spring.

I read with great sadness the Taliban's claim that they have already destroyed most of the Bamiyan Buddhas, and their boast that whatever remained would soon be gone. As a young child growing up in ...

I read with great sadness the Taliban’s claim that they have already destroyed most of the Bamiyan Buddhas, and their boast that whatever remained would soon be gone. As a young child growing up in ...

It takes 10 hours by car to travel 90 miles on the nauseatingly bad road to the Bamiyan Valley. The first stretch of the highway is quite smooth—it was built recently to shuttle American troops ...

Ten years ago, the Taliban destroyed the great Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, two giant statues that watched over the Bamiyan Valley for 1,500 years. Extensive studies of the rubble have revealed new ...

Cultural artifacts are at risk of destruction during war, but Ukrainian archivists, curators and librarians have been working to protect them during the war. From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban outlawed ...

A massive sculpture at New York's High Line by Tuan Andrew Nguyen will commemorate Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas.