Poḷonnaruwa,also referred as Pulathisipura and Vijayarajapura in ancient times,is the main town of Polonnaruwa District in North Central Province,Sri Lanka. The modern town of Polonnaruwa is also known as New Town,and the other part of Polonnaruwa remains as the royal ancient city of the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa.
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,D.C.,focusing on Asian art. The Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. The Freer and Sackler galleries house the largest Asian art research library in the country.
The Freer Gallery of Art is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,D.C. focusing on Asian art. The Freer and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. The Freer and Sackler galleries house the largest Asian art research library in the country and contain art from East Asia,South Asia,Southeast Asia,the Islamic world,the ancient Near East,and ancient Egypt,as well as a significant collection of American art.
Rajaraja I,often described as Rajaraja the Great,or Mummudi Chola as was a Chola emperor who reigned from 985 CE to 1014 CE. He was the most powerful Tamil king in South India during his reign and is remembered for reinstating the Chola influence and ensuring its supremacy across the Indian Ocean.
Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh is a painter,poet and art critic from Gujarat,India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1983 and Padmabhushan in 2014 for his contribution in field of art.
Thillai Nataraja Temple,also referred as the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple,is a Hindu temple dedicated to Nataraja,the form of Shiva as the lord of dance. This temple is located in Chidambaram,Tamil Nadu,India. This temple has ancient roots and a Shiva shrine existed at the site when the town was known as Thillai. Chidambaram,the name of the city literally means "stage of consciousness". The temple architecture symbolizes the connection between the arts and spirituality,creative activity and the divine. The temple wall carvings display all the 108 karanas from the Natya Shastra by Bharata Muni,and these postures form a foundation of Bharatanatyam,an Indian classical dance.
Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was an Indian photographer,most known for his landscapes and documentary-style photographs of the people of India. He was a self-taught photographer who worked in India and lived in Paris,London and New York. During his career he worked with National Geographic Magazine,The New York Times,The New Yorker and Time. In the early 1970s,he was one of the first photographers to reinvent the use of color at a time when color photography was still a marginal art form.
Airavatesvara Temple is a Hindu temple of Dravidian architecture located in Kumbakonam,Thanjavur District in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This temple,built by Chola emperor Rajaraja II in the 12th century CE is a UNESCO World Heritage Site,along with the Brihadeeswara Temple at Thanjavur,the Gangaikondacholisvaram Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram that are referred to as the Great Living Chola Temples.
Haku Vajubhai Shah was an Indian painter,Gandhian,cultural anthropologist and author on folk and tribal art and culture. His art belonged to the Baroda Group and his works are considered in the line of artists who brought themes of folk or tribal art to Indian art.
Geeta Kapur is a noted Indian art critic,art historian and curator based in New Delhi. She was one of the pioneers of critical art writing in India,and who,as Indian Express noted,has "dominated the field of Indian contemporary art theory for three decades now". Her writings include artists' monographs,exhibition catalogues,books,and sets of widely anthologized essays on art,film,and cultural theory.
Ramachandran Nagaswamy was an Indian historian,archaeologist and epigraphist who was known for his work on temple inscriptions and art history of Tamil Nadu. He was an authority on Chola bronzes.
Gayatri Sinha is an art critic and curator based in New Delhi,India. Her primary areas of research are around the structures of gender and iconography,media,economics and social history. She founded Critical Collective,a forum for thinking about conceptual frames within art history and practice in contemporary India.
Milo Cleveland Beach is an American art historian and the former director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art.
Raman Siva Kumar,known as R. Siva Kumar,is an Indian contemporary art historian,art critic,and curator. His major research has been in the area of early Indian modernism with special focus on the Santiniketan School. He has written several important books,lectured widely on modern Indian art and contributed articles to prestigious international projects such as the Art Journal,Grove Art Online or The Dictionary of Art,Oxford University Press.
Jasleen Dhamija is an Indian textile art historian,crafts expert and former UN worker. Based in Delhi,she is best known for her pioneering research on the handloom and handicraft industry,especially history of textiles and costumes. She has remained professor of living cultural traditions at the University of Minnesota. Over the years,during her career as a textile revivalist and scholar,she has authored several books on textiles,including Sacred Textiles of India (2014).
Pratapaditya Pal is an Indian scholar of Southeast Asian and Himalayan art and culture,specializing particularly in the history of art of India,Nepal and Tibet. He has served as a curator of South Asian art at several prominent US museums including Boston's Museum of Fine Arts,the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,and the Art Institute of Chicago,where he has organized more than 22 major exhibitions and helped build the museums' collection. He has also written over 60 books and catalogs,and over 250 articles on the subject,taught at several universities,and served as the editor of the Indian art magazine,Marg. In 2009 he was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contributions to the study of Indian art.
Brijinder Nath Goswamy is an Indian art critic,art historian and a former vice chairman of the Sarabhai Foundation of Ahmedabad,which runs the Calico Museum of Textiles. Goswamy is best known for his scholarship on Pahari painting and Indian miniature paintings. He is the author of over 20 books on arts and culture,including Sakti Burman:A Private Universe,a monograph on the life and works of Sakti Burman,renowned Bengali painter and Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1900,a treatise on Indian miniature art. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 1998 and followed it up with the third highest honour of the Padma Bhushan in 2008.
Saryu Vinod Doshi is an Indian art scholar,art historian,academic and curator,known for her erudition in Indian miniature paintings and Jain art. She is the founder director of the National Gallery of Modern Art,Mumbai and a former pro-tem chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi,New Delhi. She is the author of several books including Masterpieces of Jain Painting,a monograph on selected Jain art pieces. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri,in 1999.
Sir James Mallinson,5th Baronet of Walthamstow is a British Indologist,writer and translator. He is recognised as one of the world's leading experts on the history of medieval Hatha yoga.
Swati Bhise is a Bharatanatyam dancer,choreographer,educator,producer,director,writer and promoter of the arts.
