{"id":3304,"date":"2003-07-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/17\/2003-07-17-chicago-art-institute-hosts-hindu-and-buddhist-sculptures\/"},"modified":"2003-07-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-17T12:00:00","slug":"2003-07-17-chicago-art-institute-hosts-hindu-and-buddhist-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/17\/2003-07-17-chicago-art-institute-hosts-hindu-and-buddhist-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Art Institute Hosts Hindu and Buddhist Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/09\/arts\/design\/09HIMA.html?pagewanted=1\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, July 9, 2003: About 200 Hindu and Buddhist sculptures and paintings are on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. Entitled &#8220;Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure,&#8221; the exhibits are on loan from many top-notch North American collections. The exhibition has been organized by noted art historian Pratapaditya Pal who says that his intention was to create a masterpiece show, based on aesthetic excellence rather than on focused themes or theory. Among the pieces on display is a 10th-century Nepali relief of the Lord Siva with his family on Mount Kailash in a crowded court of dancers. There is a fabulous gilded copper sculpture of the Buddha as an earthly sage and a savior, on loan from the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; an eighth-century relief of Kamadeva, the god of love, surrounded by his consorts; a renowned gilded bronze from the Norton Simon Foundation, that depicts the Buddha at the instant of enlightenment, sitting on a cushion patterned with silver and copper inlay, a Kashmiri specialty; and a 12th-century painting from western Tibet in which the Buddha is dressed in a beautiful patchwork robe. The exhibition will be open until August 17, 2003.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, July 9, 2003: About 200 Hindu and Buddhist sculptures and paintings are on display at the Art Institute,&#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-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","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=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}