Substrate

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

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Tracy Chahwan on making the visuals for all the best “strictly-vinyl” parties in Beirut

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

Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes

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

Beirut-born Yasmina Hilal organically creates mixed media collages – cutting, gluing and sewing away from digital manipulation

Parkview Square from Arab Street

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

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

Head of the Fasting Siddhartha

Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

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Hinged Armlet

Mirror Handle with a Woman Holding a Mirror

Fragment of a Vessel with a Dionysian Scene

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The Ramaka Casket; Inscribed Reliquary, Donated by Ramaka

Intaglio Seal with Footprints of the Buddha (Buddhapada)

Dish with a Mythological Couple (Perhaps Apollo and Daphne)

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Vajradharma Lokeshvara

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

Procession of Five Figures

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

Standing Female Deity

Two Standing Women

Garuda Vanquishing the Naga Clan

Panel of a Portable Shrine

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Mold for a Buddha's Head

Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu

Dish with Winged Eros Riding a Lion-Headed Sea Monster

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Tara

Head of a Bodhisattva

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

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

Seated Bodhisattva

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Panel of a Portable Shrine

The Gift of Anathapindada

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Seated Mother Goddess

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Standing Buddha

Seal with an Ox

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Dish with Eros on a Swan

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Reliquary with Contents

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

Reliquary

Ritual Incense Burner

Pair of Ear Plugs with Hamsas (Wild Geese)

Relief Panel: Presentation of a Statue

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

Dish with Busts of a Man and Woman

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

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

Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas

Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Vairochana, the Transcendent Buddha of the Center

Dish with Apollo and Daphne

Iskandarnama (Book of Alexander)

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

Portable Shrine with the Buddha Shakyamuni Preaching his First Sermon

Dish with Marine Creature and Couple

Plaque in the Form of a Standing Female Figure

Standing Bodhisattva

Box Lid with a Bull

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

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Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)

Monumental Bodhisattva Head