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All the king’s gold
Endowment officials are clueless about all the gold ornaments and jewellery donated by Krishnadevaraya to major temples across South India
Culinary Arts Museum
One of the more unusual museums in the US is the Culinary Arts Museum at the Johnson & Wales University.
Limits of Appropriation
American copyright law has always performed a complicated balancing act involving both commerce and culture.
Faces of Devotion: Indian Sculpture
The Peabody Essex Museum recently acquired the Dr. Leo Figiel Collection of Indian sculpture––widely‐regarded as the finest collection of its kind.
Restoration induced losses – Case Study
More Reasons why photo documentation is crucial and required before art works go for restoration.
Crystal Bridges, the Museum Walmart Money Built
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened last month in this small town in northwest Arkansas, is off to a running start. Crystal Bridges is poised to make a genuine cultural contribution, and possibly to become a place of pilgrimage for art lovers from around the world.
Portraits of the Artists
What happens when a photographer encounters a subject who makes his or her living in front of the camera? Is the result truth or illusion?
A Year in the Air
The New York Times Culture section published a slideshow of the year in culture. A Year in the Air – Slide Show – NYTimes.com.
‘Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic’
This pioneering exhibition is a reminder of how little today’s generation knowd about older Indian scripts, type faces and fonts. Not to mention the myriad Indian scripts, existing and being lost daily… Hundreds of historical punches and matrices of various typefaces and dozens of books are on view at the Grolier Club in “Printing for [...]