Floating like a teardrop pendant off the southern coast of India, Sri Lanka has for more than two millennia hosted mariners, traders and monks who’ve docked at its ports, purchased its gems and ...
A Visitor Educator giving a tour of its exhibition Total Landscaping at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka, located in Colombo (image courtesy Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art ...
Treasures from Sri Lanka, a work inspired by a stolen statue in Monterey Park and historic tapestries. Plus, a talk about Carleton Watkins and a film inspired by L.A. histories. Here’s what’s going ...
“The Jeweled Isle: Art From Sri Lanka,” a modest exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a sometimes captivating, sometimes peculiar gathering of Hindu and especially Buddhist paintings ...
As an artwork, it is uncomplicated stuff, but it gives one pause – not least because several of the inscriptions are in Sinhala. Eventually, I make it to the centre. “There is no way to peace,” says ...
Hidden beneath the ancient canopy of Sri Lanka’s dry forests and shaded cliff faces lies a gallery like no other — a prehistoric museum where stone meets story. Painted and engraved thousands of years ...