This essay explores some of the art traditions, many of them devotional in nature, of the Silk Roads. The travel of artistic motifs, styles, and techniques along the Silk Road is closely bound up with ...

Silk bolts — a 3rd-century buff one survives ... Among 75 masterpieces gloriously showcased as art not ethnography is a solid, two-metre-high 12th-century Shiva Nataraja statue from Tamil ...

A crew of hacky heisters blew open an art gallery in the Netherlands — damaging and stealing a famous series of Andy Warhol ...

Uzbekistan’s tradition of silk production has been a hallmark of its cultural and economic landscape for millennia, with deep roots tracing back to the ancient Silk Road. Today, Uzbekistan is ...

On November 10, the 10th Silk Road International Arts Festival, hosted by the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government and organized by the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the ...