Substrate

A working library of design, type, and visual culture.

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Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes

The classical and the crude combine to represent the multiple facets of The Arab City

Graphic designer Bardhi Haliti on the design scene in Kosovo

Short film studies self expression via fashion and cross-dressing in Pakistan

Bokja's crafty Arab Spring inspired textiles are oddly compelling

Arab pop music meets 80s video game aesthetics in Moath Bin Hafez’s pixel art creations

Parkview Square from Arab Street

The personal is political: Haitham Haddad’s journey to bring Arabic back to public spaces in Palestine

Farah Al Qasimi photographs Dubai’s decaying entertainment architecture

Dish with Apollo and Daphne

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Box Lid with a Bull

The Dream of Queen Maya (the Buddha's Conception)

Reliquary with Contents

Standing Female Deity

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Standing Buddha with Radiate Combined Halo

Dish with a Mythological Couple (Perhaps Apollo and Daphne)

Intaglio Seal with Footprints of the Buddha (Buddhapada)

Dipankara Jataka (The Story of the Ascetic Megha and the Buddha Dipankara)

Shard

The Gift of Anathapindada

Reliquary

Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

Garuda Vanquishing the Naga Clan

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collction)

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Shard

Reliquary

Dish with Busts of a Man and Woman

Buddha

Mirror Handle with a Woman Holding a Mirror

Reliquary

Shard

Plaque in the Form of a Standing Female Figure

Monumental Bodhisattva Head

Seated Bodhisattva

Seated Mother Goddess

Vajrapani Attends the Buddha at His First Sermon

Head of a Bodhisattva

Wrestler's Weight with Hercules and the Nemean Lion; Wrestling Scene (reverse)

The Ramaka Casket; Inscribed Reliquary, Donated by Ramaka

Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

Mirror Handle: Standing Woman

Reliquary with Ancient Repairs

Shard

Dish with Eros on a Swan

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Buddha

Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu

Mold for a Buddha's Head

Hinged Armlet

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Head of the Fasting Siddhartha

Vairochana, the Transcendent Buddha of the Center

Dish with the Drunken Hercules Supported by Two Women and Flanked by a Lion

Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas

Ritual Incense Burner

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

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Disk Stone with a Four-Part Design of Palmettes and Branches

"Krishna and Balarma Fighting the Enemy", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Two Rondels with Heads

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Reliquary with Contents

Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Iskandarnama (Book of Alexander)

Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Shard

Seal with an Ox

Procession of Five Figures

Dish with Marine Creature and Couple

Standing Bodhisattva

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Dish with Winged Eros Riding a Lion-Headed Sea Monster

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Shard