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  • Two covers show details from different paintings, both of which feature kimono-clad figures on balconies overlooking rivers, with mountains in the distance.
    Just Published: A Tale of Two Balconies

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  • A crop of a painting shows four men in traditional Indian court clothing. Two men in the center sit on a divan, facing one another.
    Just Published: Ars Orientalis, Volume 54

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  • Four people with shaved head and simple orange robes hold up an orange banner across a white wall.
    Just Published: Buddhism and the Senses

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  • A section of a scroll painting shows a grove of tall pine trees in mountains, on the edge of water, with a house nestled in the center.
    Just Published: Imagined Neighbors

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  • Five people kneel below two South Asian paintings. A woman stands on the right, gestures at the rightmost painting, and speaks.
    The Freer Research Center: A New Chapter in a Long History of Scholarship at NMAA

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  • Two Smithsonian employees examine a worn chest in a dark building with stone walls. One employee shines a light while the other points to engraving on the chest.
    Protecting Culture in Crisis

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  • Side-by-side image of handwriting and collectors' stamps on brown paper, and a portrait photo of a smiling woman with red hair pulled back with a headband and wearing a brown sweater.
    Object History Sleuths: Meet a Provenance Researcher

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  • A scientist wearing an orange sweater and an optivisor bends close to a painted wall panel in an intricately decorated red-and-gold room.
    See Conservation in Action: The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room

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  • Photograph of a group of men on a boat, looking across a palace on the lake
    Just Published: Ars Orientalis, Volume 53

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  • Sculpture depicting three figures riding a camel.
    The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads

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