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Explore the Visual history of yoga at Smithsonian

Washington: Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex here, is launching a major crowdfunding campaign May 29 to support what it calls the world's first exhibition on the visual history of yoga."Yoga: The Art

IANS Updated on: May 17, 2013 12:41 IST


"These works of art allow us to trace, often for the first time, yoga's meanings across the diverse social landscapes of India," said Diamond, curator of South Asian art at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art.

Renowned masterpieces of painting and sculpture, as well as popular images, weave parallel stories of yoga as an individual path and as a cultural force, both in India and abroad.

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