Sacred Caves of the Silk Road: Ways of Knowing and Re-Creating Dunhuang

The exhibition will feature Dunhuang objects from the Princeton University Art Museum and from Princeton’s East Asian Library as well as two paintings on loan from the British Museum. The exhibit brings together paintings, calligraphy, and sculpture discovered at Dunhuang along with travelogues, early photo archives, present-day photos, and artist renderings and copies. Each source forms a kind of cultural archive that emphasizes certain types of information while omitting others. Independently or in combination, these archives permit different recreations of how the art of Dunhuang may be seen and understood.
Thursday, 10:00 am to 10:00 pm, and Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 pm (closed Monday)