Many of Faces of Hindu God Vishnu in Nashville, TN

THE KANSAS CITY STAR
By Bob Smeitana, Religion News Service

A statue titled “Krishna Fluting” is among the pieces
at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn.

TENNESSEE - The exhibit, currently on display at Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts and headed back to Brooklyn in June, is billed as the first major American exhibit on Vishnu, one of the central deities of Hinduism. In Hindu tradition, Lord Vishnu shows up in many forms. “He’s like a superhero,” said Joan Cummins of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City and the curator behind the exhibit “Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior.” The exhibit features 170 works of art portraying incarnations, or avatars, of Vishnu. They range from icons made of bronze and stone to modern-day posters of the Hindu god. “It’s about 1,500 years’ worth of history from all over India,” Cummins said. [link]

Krishna Fluting for the Gopis, page from an illustrated Dashavatara series, ca. 1730. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 10 1/4 x 8 in. Collection of Catherine and Ralph Benkaim