For Immediate Release
January 25, 2011VISHNU: HINDUISM'S BLUE-SKINNED SAVIOR
—FIRST MAJOR MUSEUM EXHIBITION TO FOCUS ON THE DEITY—
OPENS AT NASHVILLE'S FRIST CENTER IN FEBRUARY 2011 An exceptional exhibition devoted to Vishnu, one of Hinduism's three major deities, opens at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 19, 2011. Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior contains more than 170 paintings, sculptures, textiles, and ritual objects created in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh between the fourth and twentieth centuries. Loaned by museums and private collections internationally, the works have been selected both for their superb aesthetic quality and their historic significance. As such, they open a window onto Hinduism past and present, as well as onto many of India's art-making traditions.
Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior is the first major exhibition to be devoted to Vishnu. On view at the Frist through May 29, 2011, it has been organized by the Frist Center and is curated by Joan Cummins, the Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where it will be shown following its presentation in Nashville.
Please see the attached for a full press release on Vish
nu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior.
Image: Vishnu, late 4th-early 5th century. Sandstone, 27 x 16 1/ 2 x 5 3/ 4 in. Brooklyn Museum. Anonymous Donors, 81.203.
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