The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

The white and orange marigold flowers on the sides, and the yellow tablecloth kept below the murti of Ganpati bappa ... we see a blue-green colour on the wall, looking rather regal and elegant ...

The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to make an array of monochromatic paintings until his death in 1962.

She writes, “The sari is an unstitched length of cloth, worn across this land in ... “I was given my first sari at the age of eight during Ganpati Puja by a woman named Leela Mulgaonkar.