Exhibition Press Releases

Current Exhibitions

Fiercely Modern: Art of the Naga Warrior 

Fiercely Modern: Art of the Naga Warrior Image Sheet

Flip Side: The Unseen in Tibetan Art 

Living Shrines of Uyghur China: Photographs by Lisa Ross

Modernist Art from India: Radical Terrrain

Modernist Art from India: Radical Terrain Image Sheet

Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection

Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection Image Sheet 

The Tibetan Shrine Room from the Alice S. Kandell Collection

The Tibetan Shrine Room Image Sheet

 

Upcoming Exhibitions

From India East: Sculptures of Devotion from the Brooklyn Museum 

 

Past Exhibitions

The Place of Provenance

Casting the Divine: The Nyingjei Lam Collection

Casting the Divine; The Nyingjei Lam Collection Image Sheet

Candid: The Lens and Life of Homai Vyarawalla 

Candid: The Lens and Life of Homai Vyarawalla Image Sheet

Modernist Art from India: Approaching Abstraction

Modernist Art from India: Approaching Abstraction Image Sheet

Illuminated: The Art of Sacred Books

Illuminated: The Art of Sacred Books Image Sheet

Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics

Modernist Art from India: The Body Unbound

Mirror of the Buddha

Once Upon Many Times 

Human Currents

Pilgrimage and Faith

Quentin Roosevelt's China

Patterns of Life: The Art of Tibetan Carpets

Body Language: The Yogis of India and Nepal

The Nepalese Legacy in Tibetan Painting

Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art

Embodying the Holy: Icons in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism

From the Land of the Gods: Art of the Kathmandu Valley

A British Life in a Mountain Kingdom: Early Photographs of Sikkim and Bhutan

Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond

Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife

Remember That You Will Die: Death Across Cultures

In the Shadow of Everest: Photographs by Tom Wool

What is It? Himalayan Art

Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe

The Red Book of C.G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology

Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection

Mandala: The Perfect Circle

A Collector's Passion: South Asian Selections from the Nalin Collection

Nagas: Hidden Hill People of India, Photographs by Pablo Bartholomew

Patron and Painter: Situ Panchen and the Revival of the Encampment Style

Stable as a Mountain: Gurus in Himalayan Art

Color & Light: Embroidery from India and Pakistan

The Last Nomads: Photographs of Inner Mongolia by A Yin

The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan

Nepal in Black and White: Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

Red, Black and Gold

Earthly Immortals: Arhats in Tibetan Painting

Buddha in Paradise

Bon: The Magic Word

BIG! Himalayan Art

Bhutan, the Sacred Within: Photographs by Kenro Izu

Written on the Wind: The Flag Project

Wutaishan: Pilgrimage to Five Peak Mountain

Illumination: Photographs by Lynn Davis

The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama

I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion

A Sense of Place

Take to the Sky: Flying Mystics in Himalayan Art

Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas

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