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Article: Silk Road Buddhist cave art in American collections: recovering the context.
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- East-West Connections
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- January 1, 2005
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On a recent visit to Kansas City, I was struck by the Nelson-Atkins Museum's collection of Silk Road Buddhist and Chinese art. Not so much by the usual suspects, though--Tang Dynasty ceramic Bactrian camels, Sogdian riders and the like--but by the disiecta membra, forlorn if beautiful fragments displayed in a back room, pieces grouped as "Silk Road Buddhist," with only the merest provenance or explanation given in the labels. Every American museum with an Asian art collection seems to have a similar room, with similar pieces, including small fragments of Gandharan stucco work from Afghanistan and cave painting fragments from Western China's Buddhist caves. Dunhuang is the ...
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Article: YO-YO MA, THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE PERFORM AT ...
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May 3, 2006 ;
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... ... featuring the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble. The musicians will perform ... marks the first time that Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble have performed in Millennium ... performance is the centerpiece event of Silk Road Chicago: Summer 2006, a citywide celebration ...
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