Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930

At Met Museum Exhibitions, “Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930” looks closely at mass-produced images made for domestic worship and everyday viewing. The show traces how new printing technologies circulated Hindu deities across India and its diasporas, carrying ritual function into modern, portable formats. In New York, it reads as a record of migration and collecting history as much as of belief, mapping how these prints entered museum collections and public life. One quiet takeaway is how “popular” art can be both intimate and historically precise.