SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, on view through March 16, 2008. The Missing Peace is a group exhibition of eighty-eight contemporary artists from twenty-five countries who have contributed artworks inspired by the messages, vision, and values of the Dalai Lama. The show explores themes of peace, compassion, patience, and tolerance and is part of the Making Peace series, on of the Big Ideas that guides this season's programming at YBCA. Participating artists have considered the Dalai Lama in a broad array of new and existing works made in a variety of media expressing their personal interpretations of and reflections on his philosophies and ideals.

Curated by Randy Rosenberg, formerly the curator for the art collections of The World bank and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the roster of artists includes: Marina Abramovic, Seyed Alavi, Jane Alexander, El Anatsui, Laurie Anderson, Ken Aptekar, Richard Avedon, Kirsten Bahrs Janssen, Chase Bailey, etc.

The works created by these artists have been organized into ten thematic areas: Interpreted Portraits, Tibet, Beliefs, Empathy and Compassion, Transformation, Humanity in Transition, Path to Peace, Unity, Spirituality and Globalization, Impermanence.