Hinduism's Yoga Exhibit Soothes, Illuminates at Cleveland's Art Museum
CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS
By Carlo Wolf
OHIO---Yoga’s widening influence on art and culture, starting in ancient India, is on fulsome, sensuous display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Wandering from room to room in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall engenders a feeling of peace – if, perhaps, not quite the enlightenment the yogis and yoginis were said to attain. A blend of all kinds of art, from ancient sculptures to golden-hued paintings to garish, mystical woodcarvings, along with vintage photography and magazines, “Yoga: The Art of Transformation” delights the eye and stimulates less visible neural pathways. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and curated by Debra Diamond, associate curator of South and Southeast Asian Art there, it debuted at the Sackler last October. Cleveland is its final stop. [link]
By Carlo Wolf
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“This was the first sculpture in the exhibition in my mind,” says Debra Diamond, associate curator of South and Southeast Asian art at The Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art, during a recent media preview. “When I first proposed the exhibition to the (Smithsonian), this was the sculpture I populated it with first. I had to have this sculpture or I wasn’t going to do the exhibition.
“And it belongs to Cleveland, so it all comes together.”