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John Guy, curator of an exhibition of early Buddhist art at the Met, tells Apollo how the new religion transformed art in India
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John Guy, curator of an exhibition of early Buddhist art at the Met, tells Apollo how the new religion transformed art in India
The Metropolitan Museum's newest exhibition, "Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.," features over 50 sculptures from India that took over a decade to gather on loan, making it the first exhibit of its kind in a United States museum in years.
This study of archaeologist MN Deshpande’s work highlights the integrity and zeal of a true scholar MN Deshpande was someone whose respect for the past was supreme. MN Deshpande. Before anything else, a personal disclaimer, or rather, a claim: I briefly had the pleasure of knowing MN Deshpande. I met him not in the capacity of archaeologist and scholar, but as my school friend Mita’s grandfather, calling him Azoba as she did. As Class XI students at Delhi’s Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Mita and I often came back from school together to the Deshpande home. I was already interested i...