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Xuezhi Liu: Paperclay
Xuezhi Liu is a Chinese ceramic artist who, after graduating from Central Saint Martins-University of Arts in London, returned to China and settled in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, where she studied...
Xuezhi Liu: Paperclay
Xuezhi Liu is a Chinese ceramic artist who, after graduating from Central Saint Martins-University of Arts in London, returned to China and settled in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, where she studied...

Viewing the World from South India on a Sevente...
The Brooklyn Museum in New York preserves a remarkable set of seven cotton textiles constituting a single monumental work of art, painted in vibrant colours with images of courtly audiences...
Viewing the World from South India on a Sevente...
The Brooklyn Museum in New York preserves a remarkable set of seven cotton textiles constituting a single monumental work of art, painted in vibrant colours with images of courtly audiences...

Three Indic bodies in a Western imaginary: the ...
The way in which a group of South Indian images representing fierce-looking female deities was dispersed in the West clearly exposes the colonial mechanisms that our museums are still largely...
Three Indic bodies in a Western imaginary: the ...
The way in which a group of South Indian images representing fierce-looking female deities was dispersed in the West clearly exposes the colonial mechanisms that our museums are still largely...

White Ornaments and Colored Butter: The Fate of...
Many are familiar with Tibetan butter lamps, whose soft light brings out the golden faces of metal Buddhas and lamas from the darkness of a shrine. Less known, however, is...
White Ornaments and Colored Butter: The Fate of...
Many are familiar with Tibetan butter lamps, whose soft light brings out the golden faces of metal Buddhas and lamas from the darkness of a shrine. Less known, however, is...

The Name of the Gods: the Stakes of Using Sansk...
Once out of the temple, does Sanskrit, the language of the gods, resonate in the same way in museums halls, in auction houses and in the pages of scientific works?...
The Name of the Gods: the Stakes of Using Sansk...
Once out of the temple, does Sanskrit, the language of the gods, resonate in the same way in museums halls, in auction houses and in the pages of scientific works?...

From museum to the field: the temples of Āśāpur...
Āśāpurī, an early medieval site (9th-11th century) in Central India, only came to the attention of archaeologists decades after museum specialists first collected and preserved its sculptures. Despite the major...
From museum to the field: the temples of Āśāpur...
Āśāpurī, an early medieval site (9th-11th century) in Central India, only came to the attention of archaeologists decades after museum specialists first collected and preserved its sculptures. Despite the major...