Southeast Asian Art Archives - Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

Left: Remains of a brick temple on a forest-covered mountain peak, with flooded rice paddies and blue sky in the distance; Right: Face of sandstone sculpture of Krishna

Left: Northeast peak of Phnom Da in 2019. Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province. Photo: Konstanty Kulik, courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Right: Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan (detail), c. 600. Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province, Phnom Da. Sandstone; The Cleveland Museum of Art

Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain

April 30, 2022 - September 18, 2022

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Five multi-armed goddesses sitting cross-legged in a mountainous painted landscape.

One of a pair of book covers for a Dharani Samgraha (detail), Nepal, 1650–1700, opaque watercolor and gold on wood, Gift of Joyce and Kenneth Robbins, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S2000.88.1–2

The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas

Opening March 25, 2023

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Detail of an earthenware pot showing the opening, which is slightly cracked, and the front of which is decorated with a reddish orange pattern of lines in a swirl.

Vessel on pedestal foot (detail), Northeast Thailand, Ban Chiang culture, late period, 300 BCE‒200 CE, earthenware with red pigment, Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S2004.24

Prehistoric Spirals: Earthenware from Thailand

Ongoing

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Durga slaying the Buffalo Demon. F1914.54 View full image »

Power in Southeast Asia

May 23, 2017–June 2021

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Right, detail image, The Buddha at Birth, F2005.9a–b; Detail, mirror case, RLS2014.9.157; Center, detail image, Untitled, from Flowers in the Image of Imagination series, S2013.9; Left, detail image, mirror case, RLS2014.9.157

Right, detail, The Buddha at Birth, F2005.9a–b; Detail, mirror case, RLS2014.9.157; Center, detail, Untitled, from Flowers in the Image of Imagination series, S2013.9; Left, detail, mirror case, RLS2014.9.157