Envisioning the Hindu Divine: Expanding Darshan and Manjari Sharma

Maa Laxmi, From the Darshan Series, 2011, Manjari Sharma (b. Mumbai, India, lives and works in California), Archival inkjet print in brass-embossed frame, Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art; Museum purchase, 2020.48.2a-b, Photography credit: Manjari Sharma, © Manjari Sharma

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Private Landscapes and Public Territories, 1998-2011/2018; mixed media installation including painted and mirrored armoire, found objects, moss, dried flowers, faux topiaries, family photographs, miniature jeweled trees, painted wooden hedges; 120 x 240 x 300 in.; courtesy of the artist and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. Photo: Michael Karibian. 

Shibata Zeshin, Japanese, 1807-1891, Still Life with Vegetables, 19th century, Colored lacquer and gold leaf on paper, 7 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (18.1 × 27 cm), On loan from The Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection, L.2009.10.3 

Yreina D. Cervántez, American, born 1952 and Leo Limón, American, born 1952, Estrella of the Dawn, 1988, Screen print, Image: 15 7/8 × 21 7/8 in. (40.3 × 55.6 cm); Sheet: 21 7/8 × 30 in. (55.6 × 76.2 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 91.62.7, © Yreina D. Cervántez and Leo Limón

teamLab, The World of Irreversible Change, 2022, Interactive Digital Work, 6 channels, Endless, Sound: teamLab © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Southern German, from the area of Augsburg, Close Helmet for the Foot Tourney, about 1590, steel (formerly blued) with etching and gilding, and brass, 31.8 × 22.9 × 34.3 cm (12 1/2 × 9 × 13 1/2 in.), 11 lb., 15 oz (weight), The John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, 2014.1113. Image © 2021 Worcester Art Museum, all rights reserved.

Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007), Play at Dark, 1935, oil on canvas board. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. 

The Milwaukee Lithographing and Engraving Company, 1852–1920, Lone Star Brewing Co., San Antonio, 1903, Colored lithograph on paper, 27 x 41 1/2 in. (68.6 x 105.4 cm), Museum purchase, 74.93

Relief with a herdsman and cow before a sanctuary, Roman, late 1st century B.C.-mid-1st century A.D., marble, 11 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. (29.85 x 33.65 cm), State Collection of Antiquities and Glyptothek Munich, Photograph by Renate Kühling