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Moderation & Macaroni. The Iforas rebels represent only a fractious fraction of some 500,000 "blue men" who range the Sahara from Mauritania to Libya. Nominally white, they get their colorful name from the dark blue robes they wear. The robes are impregnated with a cheap dye that rubs off and...
To earn a degree in social thought, students must prove that ordinary graduate work is too narrow for the "unifying" idea that consumes them. Any field is legitimate, including art, poetry or music. Without blinking, the committee has, for example, taken on explorers of innocence in 19th century America, Islamic...
Asian art on loan from Collector Ernest Erickson, including Islamic ceramics, Indian miniatures, Nepalese, Thai and Cambodian sculpture. Through Jan. 12.
"A terrific roar, and the line vanished from sight behind a spouting column of black dust and smoke." So wrote T. E. Lawrence, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, of his World War I dynamiting raids on the Hejaz Railway, the 782-mile "pilgrim express" whose single track linked Damascus with...
BROOKLYN MUSEUM-Eastern Parkway. Asian art on loan from Collector Ernest Erickson, including Islamic ceramics, Indian miniatures, Nepalese, Thai and Cambodian sculpture, two pages from an 11th century Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript. Through Jan. 12.