Art

Exhibition Overview

Created between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries for the Rajput and Pahari courts of north India, the paintings in this exhibition capture the collective imagination of the Ramayana, an epic narrative composed by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around the fifth century B.C. Accompanied by a number of textiles from across South Asia,… Read more »

The veneration of Lakshmi and imagery associated with the goddess have traveled across the world over many centuries together with the South Asian diaspora. Originally a personification of the earth and a fertility goddess within Hindu culture, Lakshmi came to be associated with the god Vishnu and developed into the beloved goddess of good fortune,… Read more »

Brooklyn Museum houses one of America’s foremost collections of Asian art, with the Asian galleries currently including more than 350 works from China, Korea, and Japan. These sections are newly re-imagined, the result of a multiyear reinstallation, with additional galleries planned for the arts of South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas…. Read more »

Exhibition Overview

This exhibition will elucidate how the religious landscape of ancient India was transformed by early Buddhism, initially with the erection of monumental stupas to house the Buddha’s relics, and culminating in the sublime imagery of the Buddha made manifest. Featuring more than 150 objects dating from the very beginnings of Buddhist art,… Read more »