India’s Vibrant and Idiosyncratic Truck Art

Good morning. 🌧 Today, India’s vibrant truck art, who bears the cost of ethnic fraud, and MoMA truste

Jun 3, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌧Today, India’s vibrant truck art, who bears the cost of ethnic fraud, and MoMA trustee Leon Black is accused of defamation and sexual abuse.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

India’s Vibrant and Idiosyncratic Truck Art The graceful art form has a long history, but is currently under threat of disappearing. Radhika Iyengar

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Lintel with Yama, deity of the underworld (ca 1000–1080), sandstone, Northeastern Thailand, Nong Hong Temple, Buriram province (Avery Brundage Collection; photo © Asian Art Museum)

MoMA trustee (and former board chair) Leon Black is accused of defamation and sexual abuse in a lawsuit that was filed on Tuesday, June 1. After spending the past five decades in San Francisco, two 1,500-pound lintels from the ninth and 10th centuries have been repatriated to Thailand.

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