Carlos Museum’s “When Gold Blossoms” explores artistry, meaning of Indian jewelry
Adolph Loos, the Viennese architect and polemicist, infamously assailed ornament as a crime, but, globally and historically speaking, he and his fellow modernists are in the minority. The will to decorate is a universal trait, and it reaches its apogee in India. As I wrote in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “The whole subcontinent is bedecked to the…
