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Auden had it right about Spain: "That arid square, that fragment nipped off from hot/ Africa, soldered so crudely to inventive Europe." One thinks of this while visiting "Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain," the new | contribution to the 500th anniversary of Columbus by New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. For a long time, Spain and North Africa were...
...ripe for conquest. In 711 a mixed force of Arabs and Berbers under the command of Musa ibn Nusayr crossed the sea and smashed through the patchy Visigothic resistance; within 50 years most of Spain, except for the pockets of Castile and Catalonia in the north, had become al-Andalus, the farthest western expansion of a vast Muslim empire run by the Abbasid dynasty from Baghdad...
...Andalus," which runs through Sept. 27, is the first large-scale attempt to supply American art lovers with a sense of this vanished and brilliant culture. Given the ignorant animus against the Arab world in America, it is a valuable show, and its massive catalog is the best introduction to Spanish Islamic civilization ever set before a general audience by a museum. If the show itself, with its 120-some items, seems a little thin to the casual eye, this is due to the extreme paucity of works of art that have come down to us from the Hispano-Islamic...
Films: Center for Middle Eastern Studies--Shah name, Isfahan of Sha Abbas, Al-Andalus. 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...
Films: Center for Middle Eastern Studies--Shah name, Isfahan of Sha Abbas, Al-Andalus. 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...