India: Art and Culture 7300-1900 documents six critical centuries of artistic synthesis, change, and survival. The exhibition opens with two South Indian bronzes that exemplify
the endurance and vitality of the all-encompassing Great Tradition: stirring images of the Hindu god Shiva and his consort Parvati, sculpted by anonymous craftsmen who used age-old techniques and prescribed canons of iconography and proportion to give shape to a sacred inner vision. It closes with two photographs that epitomize adaptability
in the face of profound disruption: an enigmatic portrait of a sensitive young prince and a brooding study of swagged Victorian curtains leading only to a forbiddingly
blank wall