Stories By Maya Tola
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Nihal Chand and the Kishangarh School
March 29, 2020Nihal Chand was an esteemed member of the royal atelier of Kishangarh in the 18th century, under the employ of Crown Prince Sawant Singh. While many royal courts from the princely states of Northwestern India were...
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The Churning of the Ocean of Milk
March 24, 2020The churning of the ocean of milk is a momentous event in Hindu mythology that appears in the Bhagwat Purana, Vishnu Purana, and the Mahabharata. It is the story of the Devas (the Gods) obtaining the...
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Architecture
Art Travels: Ta Prohm Temple
March 4, 2020The Ta Prohm temple along with the Bayon and the Angkor Wat are among the most visited sites in northern Cambodia. The most enchanting feature of Ta Prohm is that it looks like the sandstone structures...
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Artist
Vasily Vereshchagin – Journey through India
February 25, 2020Vasily Vereshchagin was a notable Russian solider, artist and writer in the 19th century. He was an outspoken critic of war who reformed the genre of war paintings by dispensing with traditional conventions that glorified war....
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Art Travels
Art Travels: Angkor Thom, Cambodia
February 19, 2020Angkor Thom or the ‘great city’ was the last Khmer empire’s capital from the 12th century until its abandonment in the 16th century. At its peak, the city was home to a population of around 1...
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Contemporary Art
Blue Like Me: The Art of Siona Benjamin
February 17, 2020From February 25th to May 31st, 2020 the Gotthelf Art Gallery at the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture will exhibit the unique works of the Indian artist Siona Benjamin. She is now based in New...
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Architecture
Art Travels: Angkor Wat, Cambodia
February 8, 2020The Khmer kingdom thrived in the Cambodian region from the 9th to 15th centuries with an empire that stretched all the way from modern-day Myanmar down to Vietnam. The Angkor Wat (or city temple) was built...
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21st century
Charles Fazzino – Superbowl’s Officially Licensed Artist
February 2, 2020America’s biggest sporting event has its own official artist! Charles Fazzino is a gifted artist from New York, best known for his incredibly detailed contemporary pop art. His unique three-dimensional artworks are exhibited and sold in...
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Six Exquisite Mother-of-Pearl Artifacts from Gujarat
January 27, 2020Mother-of-Pearl an iridescent layer carved out of snail shells, usually the Turbo Marmoratus. It is a luminous material that naturally reflects pink and green hues. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was used to embellish...
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Art Travels
The Tang Shipwreck – Southeast Asia’s Maritime Heritage
January 21, 2020Discovered near the Belitung Island in Indonesia, the Tang Shipwreck is a momentous archeological discovery of recent times that provides significant evidence of commercial relations between the Far East and the Middle East in the 9th...
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