Invisible Thread : Finding Surprises as they are turned up by the Karma Wheel.

By Holland Cotter

New York Times

November 7, 2003

'The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art.''
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY

A roster of nearly 50 artists that looked unpromisingly eclectic on paper turns out to be a beguilingly unobvious mix.

Alex Grey's painting, ''Universal Mind Lattice,'' with its glowing emblem of neural circuitry set in a Christian altarpiece format, exemplifies hybrid, interfaith ''American Buddhism'' that some historians of religion see as the way of the future.