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

Detail, Vessel on pedestal foot; 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