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July 2022 Message from the Executive Director

Preparations are well-advanced for a busy summer at the Sainsbury Institute. Chris Hayes and Ollie...
Exhibition – Nara to Norwich: Art and belief at the extremities of the Silk Roads, 500-1100

Nara to Norwich – Beyond the Silk Road The Silk Road is recognised internationally as...
Report on the talk ‘Self-made and World Aware: Clothing Styles of Okakura Kakuzō and M.K. Gandhi’

At the last Thursday Lecture on the 16 June, Dr Maumita Banerjee, current Robert and...