Sona Datta comes to Salem museum from the British Museum in London. During her eight-year tenure as art historian and curator, she specialized in the visual culture of South Asia.

SALEM, Mass. (AP) - The Peabody Essex Museum has a new curator of Indian and South Asian art. Sona Datta comes to Salem museum from the British Museum in London. During her eight-year tenure as ...

Datta, who joined PEM in 2014 after eight years at the British Museum, has been helping the Salem institution launch an initiative to expand its coverage of South Asia.

Michelangelo is a controversial giant of the Renaissance. Art historian Sona Datta explores six decades of BBC archive to discover how TV has influenced our understanding of him. Show more ...

Sona Datta began her career at the British Museum and is now the lead curator at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the most important museum in the USA that Europeans have never heard ...

Dr Sona Datta begins her journey in Pakistan. ... Sona also visits the city of Lahore and explores modern Pakistan discovering a strong vibrant culture among artists, ...

In this enlightening documentary, historian Sona Datta walks us through the most vibrant city in the Indus Valley that seduced Alexander the Great and shaped the modern world. Watch the full ...

Sona Datta shows how Pakistan used to be the meeting point for many different faiths from around the world and has produced some extraordinary works of art. Sona Datta looks at the Mughals, who ...

We all have images of India, whether it’s the Taj Mahal, intense poverty or Bollywood movies. “It’s hard to get beyond those,” said Sona Datta, curator of South Asian art at the Peabody ...

We all have images of India, whether it’s the Taj Mahal, intense poverty or Bollywood movies. “It’s hard to get beyond those,” said Sona Datta, curator of South Asian art at Peabody Essex ...

Datta sees the installation as pertinent to the current political climate as well. “This globalization has created a kind of tribalism, and things are very kind of regressive,” she says.

Dr Sona Datta begins her journey in Pakistan. ... Sona also visits the city of Lahore and explores modern Pakistan discovering a strong vibrant culture among artists, ...