This essay explores some of the art traditions, many of them devotional in nature, of the Silk Roads. The travel of artistic motifs, styles, and techniques along the Silk Road is closely bound up with ...

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

The Silk Road, like the Milky Way ... “There was a movement of knowledge, of art, of people and ideas”, she said. “People were more connected, earlier than we expected in lots of different ...

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"Silk Roads" at The British Museum, however, is just such an event. This ambitious show explores the myriad ways in which "Asia, Europe and North Africa shared their cultures more than a ...

Highlight the importance of art as representations of life and culture, and how the diversity of artifacts indicate the movement of people and the exchange of goods and ideas on the Silk Roads. Go to ...

A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang, at the British Library, see p61). While Brunning is taking care of Europe, Luk Yu-ping (the museum’s curator for Chinese paintings, prints and ...

A much-lauded art historian argues that India gets drastically ... The museum aims to “challenge and expand” traditional understandings of the Silk Road: “Rather than a single trade route ...

Today, for designer Fan Yanyan, silk has once again become a medium of cross-border connection. Inspired by the mural art in ...

The 'Silk and the Silk Road' exhibition at the National Museum of Kazakhstan showcases cultural exchanges between China and ...