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Art Diary

The Silk Road: A Living History

1 April 2021

This week’s Apollo Art Diary picks out four outdoor sculpture trails and exhibitions that you can still enjoy while the long wait continues for UK museums to reopen…

The travel photographer Christopher Wilton-Steer travelled some 40,000km by car, boat and camel from London to Beijing, along the historic Silk Road. From 8 April–16 June, his photographs will be displayed outdoors at Granary Square, outside Kings Cross station – where he began his journey. They reveal the divergences and convergences between cultural rituals, customs and dress in the 16 countries he travelled through, from Iran to Turkmenistan and from India to China. Find out more from the photographer’s website.

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A boat builder in Zanzibar (2019), Christopher Wilton-Steer. Courtesy Christopher Wilton-Steer and the Aga Khan Development Network .

A village of yurts in Kyrgyztan (2019), Christopher Wilton-Steer. Courtesy Christopher Wilton-Steer and the Aga Khan Development Network