Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

This essay explores some of the art traditions, many of them devotional in nature, of the Silk Roads. The travel of artistic motifs, styles, and techniques along the Silk Road is closely bound up with ...

The Silk Road is often depicted as an incredible crossroads of ideas, religion, and art. Does the Silk Road conform to our modern concept of a pluralist, multicultural society? Well, Silk Road towns ...

Culture, music, art and food of the Silk Road were set against a backdrop of pavilions representing Silk Road countries.

Inspired by Baudelaire's words, Fattal engraved the pearls with texts in a version of lingua franca – “a language that was a mixture of Italian, Arabic and Greek so those along the silk road c ...

"I think the Silk Road, in terms of the movement of goods and ... It's pretty unprepossessing as a work of art, but then it was never intended to be a work of art, because this painting was ...

Peláez said he wants to see more public art in the area. And when the city’s Fiesta celebrations overtake the city each spring, he hopes the district will host a Silk Road-themed event.