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...make the journey to Oxford, England. "Pilgrimage: The Sacred Journey" runs at the Ashmolean Museum until April 2. It includes a 15th century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the 13th century casket that once held the relics of Canterbury's martyr St. Thomas Becket, as well as rare objects such as a 5th century sandstone head of the Hindu god Shiva and a 13th century Buddhist plaque from Burma, pictured. Pilgrim mores often included leaving behind a symbol of a request - like Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore...
...Swiss painters and sculptors highlighting seven key pieces from the museum’s collection. Several undergraduates were also involved in the project and will be giving gallery talks. The Busch-Reisinger Museum. Free. Through Feb. 26, 2006. (DJH & LRC)—Happening was compiled by Lois E. Becket, Lindsay R. Canant, Ben B. Chung, Daniel J. Hemel, Carmen E. James, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Kimberly A. Kicenuik, and Therese M. Nurse...
...sights,' but in these small patches of sacred territory ? where the living and the dead still walk together." But Ackroyd missed, as have many others, the very best example. If it were possible to walk with the dead, then who better to take as companions than Thomas à Becket; Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to occupy the papal chair; and Walter de Merton, the founder of Merton College, Oxford? At the site of London's Merton Priory, one can walk with kings, queens, Simon de Montfort, William Morris and even Lord Nelson. Services are still held annually...
...last year’s American College Dance Festival (ACDFA), a trio choreographed by Alaly was selected to be performed at ACDFA’s national gala in June 2004. And last summer, HCDE was also invited to perform at the legendary Jacob’s Pillow Theater in Becket, MA, one of the most well-regarded modern dance venues, a highly unusual accomplishment for non-professional student dancers...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Galileo and Pope Paul V. Thomas à Becket and Henry II. Encounters between great figures, especially when their world views clash, can create historical watersheds. Such an encounter, writes James R. Gaines, took place on a spring evening in 1747, when an aged Johann Sebastian Bach arrived at the court of Frederick the Great, ruler of Prussia. Frederick, a music lover with as deep a passion for the arts as for waging war, had summoned Bach in order to set him a musical challenge--one that Bach triumphantly met two weeks later when he presented Frederick with...