{"id":13067,"date":"2013-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/30\/yoga-the-art-of-transformation-exhibit-premieres-october-19-at-the-smithsonian-s-sackler-gallery\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"yoga-the-art-of-transformation-exhibit-premieres-october-19-at-the-smithsonian-s-sackler-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/30\/yoga-the-art-of-transformation-exhibit-premieres-october-19-at-the-smithsonian-s-sackler-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Yoga: The Art of Transformation&#8221; Exhibit Premieres October 19 at the Smithsonian&#8217;s Sackler Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asia.si.edu\/exhibitions\/future.asp\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, September 24, 2013 (Press Release): &#8220;Yoga: The Art of Transformation,&#8221; the first exhibition about the visual history of yoga, opens October 19 at the Smithsonian&#8217;s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and explores yoga&#8217;s rich diversity and historical transformations during the past 2,000 years. &#8220;This exhibition looks at yoga&#8217;s ancient roots, and how people have been trying to master body and spirit for millennia,&#8221; said Julian Raby, The Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art. &#8220;By applying new scholarship to both rarely seen artworks and recognized masterpieces, we&#8217;re able to shed light on practices that evolved over time&#8211;from yoga&#8217;s ancient origins to its more modern emergence in India, which set the stage for today&#8217;s global phenomenon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A free public festival, &#8220;Diwali and the Art of Yoga,&#8221; Saturday, Oct. 26 will mark both the opening of the exhibition and Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. In conjunction with &#8220;The Art of Transformation,&#8221; the Freer and Sackler galleries will also host &#8220;Yoga and Visual Culture,&#8221; a free interdisciplinary symposium for scholars and yoga enthusiasts Nov. 21-23. Yoga classes in the galleries will be offered through &#8220;Art in Context,&#8221; an interactive 90-minute workshop combining tours of the exhibition with the practice of yoga. <\/p>\n<p>The Sackler&#8217;s annual benefit gala on Thursday, Oct. 17, &#8220;Some Enlightened Evening,&#8221; celebrates the exhibition&#8217;s opening with luminaries from the worlds of art and yoga. More information and tickets are available at source.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source WASHINGTON, September 24, 2013 (Press Release): &#8220;Yoga: The Art of Transformation,&#8221; the first exhibition about the visual history of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}