Indian Images Reflect the Present "Before 'Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest,' an exhibition of modern and contemporary Indian art, came to the College of New Jersey last month, it had already provided its curator with a crash course on Americans' attitudes toward art from that part of the world," Tammy La Gorce wrote in The New York Times. The 22 paintings on display "both adhere to and diverge from expectations of what Indian art might look like in the years from 1947, the year India gained independence, to the present, which is the era the show documents," Rebecca M. Brown, a professor of history of art and guest curator for the New Jersey exhibition, said.