Beyond Bollywood at Asian Art Museum goes beyond dazzling, exotic images and statues; it explores the ties between dance and spirituality.
“It’s hard to think of other religious traditions worldwide where the gods dance so much,” observes Forrest McGill, co-curator of a new exhibit at the Asian Art Museum that explores the roots of South and Southeast Asian performance.
The exhibit pavilion, opened in 2021, also allows performance videos to fill entire gallery walls, sometimes three walls at a time. The exhibit follows a path through six themes, each with a distinctive signature artwork, then additional works expanding the scope. The museum’s always-ingenious installation means, in this case, that we can see a historical dance tradition in an ancient sculpture, then in a 19th-century painting, then in a video of a recent, contemporary performance.The galleries themselves are dimly lit, with artwork spotlighted and the videos, of course, brightly visible on walls or tablets.
The cross-cultural impact of these deities is on view, too. Among the artwork is the cover of a 2010 Newsweek magazine with President Barack Obama, “God of All Things,” posed like a many-armed Shiva Nataraja. The exhibit catalog even depicts a can of Shiva IPA beer from Asheville, N.C.; a brewery owner said it was meant to honor the god’s power and strength.
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