There is a growing trend toward transcultural or intercultural shows that trace aesthetic connections between far-flung cultures, and do so in ways that fit smoothly into mainstream museum settings.

The suburban hobby or fun farm that becomes a family's profit center will do little to stem the decline of a far-flung rural culture.

And in a geographically far-flung culture, which stretched from China to Spain, that holy text was a crucial source of group identity.

With Mr. Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble presiding, far-flung cultures and their instruments took the stage: sometimes speechifying on their own, sometimes engaged in dialogue.

The company is known for exotic swimsuits that adapt print motifs and stylistic details from ancient and far-flung cultures.

Doris Wiener has put together a magnetic cluster of early Kashmiri sculptures, a distinctive and understudied art in which far-flung Asian cultures mesh.

With the advent of world music programs that demonstrate the extraordinary variety with which far-flung cultures have expressed themselves, the long-cherished notion that music is a universal language has been taking a beating.

The series just ended, "Musical Worlds in Fusion," was literally all over the map and all over the century, charting the influences of far-flung cultures and disparate styles on Western classical music.

She groped for something to say, recalling the oldest language in her memory, and therefore the one most likely to be recognized in any far-flung human culture.

He enumerates a series of far-flung local cultures within his work and reminds us that much of painting's vigor, both historically and currently, stems from sources neither Western nor high.