Every year since I first had the pleasure of studying art history at university, I have longed for a sourcebook “detailing” art from India. I am sometimes quite annoyed with publications with “global” ...

Of all the major world religions, Hinduism is by far the closest to ancient paganism – in fact, by many metrics, it is the last pagan religion. At roughly 4000 years old, it stands alongside Judaism ...

Almost 200 years ago, an aristocratic English lady of remarkable talents travelled across North India, recording her ...

Ganesha from Central Viet Nam in the 7th-8th century, part of the exhibit "Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century," on April 7, 2014 at the Metropolitan ...

The Encyclopedia of Indian Art, arriving online next month, aims to be comprehensive and yet accessible to experts and students of all kinds. By Ginanne Brownell The history of art in India, going ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The collection consists of nine (9) ...

Deep in the Kew Gardens archive some years ago, Henry Noltie found a drawing that had been cut in half. It was a large watercolour of a salak palm (Salacca zalacca). He didn’t think he’d ever find the ...

The collection consists of six (6) Plains Indian drawings on the leaves of a book created by stitching together two folded sheets of printed forms, yielding four leaves. Two leaves have drawings on ...

While acknowledging that we live on a planet ravaged by climate change, wars, technological disruption and a crisis of loneliness amidst the white noise of the digital universe, it is equally ...