The Marg Foundation and LD Museum

invite you to

THE Worlds of Jain Art

17TH to 21ST CENTURIES

a panel discussion with

Sonya Rhie Mace

GEORGE P. BICKFORD CURATOR OF INDIAN AND

SOUTHEST ASIAN ART

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Shobha Talengala

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS AND DEPARTMENT OF

ART HISTORY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

 

Dipti Khera

COLLECTIONS CONSULTANT

DECCAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION, MYSORE

 

moderated by

Naman P. Ahuja

GENERAL EDITOR

MARG

 

 

Date: 23rd January, 2026 (Friday)

Time: 6 PM (refreshments at 5:30 PM)

 

Venue: Lecture Hall, L D Museum, Ahmedabad

 

For more information, please contact:

Call: +91-9408536883 | WhatsApp: +91-7863040584

 

The Many Worlds of Jain Art

New ideas, modes of performance and even new forms of religious practice are reflected in the styles of Jain art that emerged after the 17th century. Sonya Mace, the George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, Cleveland Museum of Art; Dipti Khera, Associate Professor in the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History at New York University; and Shobha Telangala, Collections Consultant, Deccan Heritage Foundation, Mysore —three writers of the essays in this pioneering volume will be in conversation with Naman P. Ahuja, the General Editor of Marg and a professor of Art History at JNU, on which biographies and narratives of karma, rituals and spiritual quests seem to show continuities with older times and what the innovations reveal about the shifts in Jain tradition.

 

Detail of a vijnaptipatra, letter of invitation, to the Jain monk Vijaysenasuri with Mughal emperor Jahangir's farman, Usta Salivahana, Agra, 1610. Opaque watercolor and ink on paper; 284.7 X 32.2 cm.
COURTESY LALBHAI DALPATBHAI MUSEUM, AHMEDABAD. LDII.542.

 

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