Research note · May 2, 2026
60 objects. 4 institutions. One shared subject: Hindu deities and mythology.
A LinkedCulture topic cluster spanning roughly 1,500 years of South and Southeast Asian art, from a 2nd-century Kushan relief to a 10th-century Angkor bronze.
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60 objects. 4 institutions. One shared subject: Hindu deities and mythology.
The latest topic cluster on LinkedCulture brings together works from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rijksmuseum, spanning roughly 1,500 years of artistic tradition across South and Southeast Asia.
Durga slaying the buffalo demon Mahishasura appears again and again, from a 2nd-century Kushan relief to a 10th-century Angkor bronze. You can watch how the iconography shifts across centuries and continents, with each institution holding a different piece of the story.
Shiva Nataraja. Ganesha. Krishna dancing on the serpent Kaliya. Kali from 10th-century India. Brahma from 9th-century Java. Objects that were never meant to be in conversation with each other, now surfaced as a coherent visual thread by semantic search.
This is what LinkedCulture is built to do: find the relationships that institutional silos obscure.