Rubin Museum Traces Spread of Stylistic and Visual Elements of Religious Iconography Across Asia

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Shiva as Nataranja. Southern India (Tamil Nadu), 13th century or later.

NEW YORK---The Rubin Museum of Art presents "From India East: Sculpture of Devotion from the Brooklyn Museum," an exhibition tracing the stylistic evolution of Hindu and Buddhist sculptural artworks across Asia from the 2nd and 3rd centuries BCE through the 18th century CE. The forty-eight works featured in From India East were selected from the Brooklyn Museum’s extensive collection as the best examples of this iconographic diaspora. The Rubin’s immersive environment, dedicated to the cultures and art of Himalayan Asia, is the first to provide this context to the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. The exhibition is on view at the Rubin through July 7, 2014. [link]