It’s a delicate treasure that seldom emerges from storage: a man’s deerskin shirt, made around 1840 in the Upper Missouri region. Embellished with horsehair, porcupine quills, human hair, glass pony ...
The most famous pieces of Eastern art are known for their opulence, their rich decadence and their bright colors. But sumptuousness and magnificence often overshadow the relationship a viewer enjoys ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opens the new exhibition “Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings” in its Albert H. Small Documents Gallery Nov. 13. The exhibition focuses ...
Why contemporary artist Neeraj Patel found echoes of industrial repetition-disruption and the mechanics of production in ...
In a 1991 essay on the development of his personal art collection, British painter and printmaker Sir Howard Hodgkin recalled his first purchase of an Indian work of art, a colorful depiction of ...
This Independence Day, Govt. of India has started a creativity initiative of Tiranga Challenge to celebrate the spirit of India. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in collaboration with Nirmit ...