Each semester, the Davis Museum works with college faculty to develop a thematic installation in the Print Study Corridor using works from the permanent collection. This installation, Culture as a Living Condition, was developed with Assistant Professor Geeta Patel and her Women's Studies class Gender and Writing in South Asia and was one of the programs held in conjunction with the Kathryn Wasserman Davis '28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership.

The exhibition focused on the continuity of South Asian artistic traditions by looking at Classical Indian miniatures, 19th century colonial photography and the vivid and sensually colored painting of noted contemporary Indian artist Bhupen Khakhar. This installation explored themes of: social class; conflating sexuality and spirituality; figure and landscape; and, colonial conventions of portraiture.