Art Review: Brooklyn Museum’s Blue Vishnu Show

BROOKLYN PAPER

NEW YORK - Do you know Vishnu? You should after this show. The Brooklyn Museum’s newest exhibition presents an exhaustive look at the blue-skinned Hindu deity. And by exhaustive, we also mean exhausting. Like other supreme deities, Vishnu is said to be too powerful to have a form comprehensible to us mere mortals, but that didn’t stop devotees from trying. Moving past the multiple images of Vishnu and his depicted legends, you reach the real meat of the show — the avatars, or earthly bodies of the god. If the museum really wanted to capitalize on the wealth of its subject matter, it should have just called the show “Avatar” and focused on Vishnu’s incarnations. [link]