The Hindu god (and his many avatars) are the focus of a thrilling assortment of sculptures and paintings, dating from the fourth century through the twentieth. One of the earliest pieces is a sculpture depicting the lion-man Narasimha ripping open the belly of a demon. In a stunning eighteenth-century miniature, Krishna, perhaps Vishnu’s best-known avatar, calmly balances a mountain on his pinkie while a crowd, rendered in painstaking detail, takes refuge underneath it from a demon-generated storm. For all his heroics, Vishnu could be a bad boy. Witness the eighteenth-century watercolor portraying Krishna in childhood, sneaking a handful of butter as his mother slaves away at the churn. Through Oct. 2.

June 24 – October 2