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Hindu Deities: Imposed Imports By Kushana Warlords? (Part 1)

Technical and Multi-Analytical Investigation of Sacred Tibetan Thangka Paintings

Thangkas are sacred artifacts; therefore, conducting scientific examinations of these paintings is not common. Based on this significant ethical challenge, a study published in the journal Heritage proposed a non-invasive three-stage technique that carefully investigates each layer of the painting, successfully assessing various production stages such as color notations, underdrawing, and painting techniques.

Myna Mukherjee: The Bridge - Open The Magazine

Artissima, Italy's Leading Contemporary Art Fair, Returns With an Unexpected Focus: India

The fair's special feature 'Hub India' will showcase work by 65 contemporary artists from the subcontinent.

Repatriating Afghanistan's stolen and looted artefacts

I N NOVEMBER 2013, Nora von Achenbach, curator at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany, examined the catalogue for an upcoming auction by the Paris-based dealer Boisgirard-Antonini. The glossy pages offered a bevy of antiquities for sale: bronze figurines, jewellery and a statue from ancient Egypt estimated at more than €300,000. But von Achenbach was interested in a pale marble tablet, carved with arabesques, vines and Persian script. Lot 104, an “important epigraphic panel with interlacings from the palace of Mas’ud III”, was date to the 12th century, from the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire, in what is today Afghanistan.