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Fiercely Modern: Art of the Naga Warrior Explores Rarely Seen 1930s-Era Material Culture of the Naga People Who Live on the India-Burma Border 4/4/2013
Flip Side Exhibition Reveals the Rarely Seen Texts and Images on the Reverse Of Tibetan Scroll Paintings, Sculptures, and Picture Cards 3/7/2013
First Museum Exhibition of Photography by Lisa Ross Captures Artist’s Unprecedented Access to the Muslim Shrines Of Uyghur Region of China 1/17/2013
Radical Terrain Explores the Intersection of Place and Identity With Landscape Works by Influential Modernist Indian Painters And Commissions by Global Contemporary Artists 11/6/2012
The Place of Provenance: Regional Styles in Tibetan Painting, Explores the Challenges of Attributing Place of Origin In Ancient Tibetan Artworks 7/1/2012
Candid: The Lens and Life of Homai Vyarawalla First Museum Retrospective in the United States of Works by Pioneering Photojournalist 4/1/2012
Indian Modernist Art Exhibition Series Continues with Approaching Abstraction, May 4 – October 15, 2012 at The Rubin Museum of Art 4/1/2012
The First U.S. Presentation of More Than 100 Sculptures from A Private Collection of Indian, Nepalese, and Tibetan Art from the 7th Through the 17th Century 2/1/2012
Superheroes, Mythical Creatures, and Evil Forces Take over Rubin Museum of Art in Exhibition Exploring the Tibet of Comics from December 9, 2011 – June 11, 2012 8/1/2011
World’s Largest Recorded Human Gathering –Tens Of Millions Of Pilgrims — Captured By Photographer Hannes Schmid 5/1/2011
Art and Artifacts of Buddhist, Christian, and Isalmic PilgrimagesPresented at the Rubin Museum of Art 5/1/2011
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