“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

On October 5th, 2024, a 114-year-old family firm relocated to the end of Kasturi Rangan Road, on a stretch formally known as ...

Xu Jiang, one of the exhibition's chief curators, an artist and vice-chairperson of the China Federation of Literary and Art ...

Sadhana’, by Sundar Sinkhwal, showcases Paubha paintings of deities, creating a temple-like atmosphere at the Siddhartha Art ...

For instance, we don't know if the oldest flowers were unisexual or bisexual, or if they were pollinated by wind or insects." Science Photo Library Left: Spiral arrangement of petals in a lotus ...

For Hindus, the beautiful and arresting lotus flower represents life, fertility and (as with Buddhists) purity – standing aloof above the mud and murk from which it grows. Though its roots are ...

Nakamura Kazunobu Design-Works has created an installation art space for Japanese dance ... from the fragranced fog around the sacred lotus flower, usually shrouded in a light early morning ...

Whatever you’re after: a collectable object, an art gift, or an education ... Nevertheless, it ends in peace, a hopeful wish from me, a rebirth like a lotus flower growing in muddy water.’ Staging ...

However, few schools of floral design are infused with as much depth of theory, symbolism, design, tradition, and rich cultural meaning as the Japanese art ... used flowers in Ikebana are cherry ...

These multicolor vintage-style martini glasses are, in fact, so cute that they just hit Oprah's Favorite Things list for 2024 ...