After his sister is mutilated, Ravana plots revenge in the form an elaborate scheme to kidnap Sita. Ravana’s brother Maricha takes the form of a golden deer and bounds past Rama’s hermitage. Sita requests her prince to kill the deer, so Rama…
Byeri reliquary figures are guardian figures that stand atop cylindrical bark boxes (nsuk byeri) filled with powerful medicine and the skulls of ancestors. Thus, they are not powerful in and of themselves, but indicate that something powerful lay…
This artist’s book, Andy Warhol’s Index (Book), allows another glimpse into Warhol’s working methods. The book is opened to a photograph that captures an intimate moment of the artist at work, amidst row upon row of unfinished silkscreens, feverishly…