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...were dressed in silk-lined caftans emblazoned with tulips and pomegranates and rocked to sleep in hazelnut cradles plated in silver and sprinkled with emeralds and diamonds. When they went to war, they donned conical helmets decorated with floral patterns and studded with turquoise and rubies, fought with ivory-inlaid muskets and swords and slept in satin-lined field tents. Even their horses pranced around in gold-plated headgear and golden stirrups...
Some important items from the original show, such as the 12th century ivory- inlaid minbar, or high preacher's throne, from the Kutubiyya mosque in Marrakesh, were also deemed too fragile to travel. When the Spanish authorities refused to lend one of the spectacular amphora-type "Alhambra vases," with its luster glazes and formalized handles like angels' wings, another was lent by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. But even in its truncated form, "Al-Andalus" is not an exhibition to miss...
There are 688 works, ranging from Deco vases to documentary photos, from tiny collages to a reconstruction of Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, from architectural drawings to a De Havilland biplane and a huge, sleek Type 41 Bugatti Royale, the ultimate dream machine of the 1920s, with sharkskin-inlaid running boards and a 12.7-liter engine, one of only six that were built before the Depression put an end to such automotive fantasies. Even the school kids, who race through the rooms of painting and sculpture, fall into an awed hush in front of this one, as their ancestors were once supposed...
With his fast talk about how to "strategize" a craps table, his self- designed gold-inlaid ruby belt buckle and a jet-black Western shirt embroidered with two crimson roses, Ken Wickham, 63, is the very image of a high-rolling gambler. He stands 6 ft. 6 in. in his 10-gallon hat that is festooned with red feathers and a Hopi rain-dance pin for good luck. Wickham soon lets you know he's no ordinary man: he says he's an evangelist minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World...
COURTLY SPLENDOR: TWELVE CENTURIES OF TREASURES FROM JAPAN, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. To celebrate the enthronement of Japan's new Emperor, Akihito, a selection of 60 objects -- among them scrolls, sculpture and a lacquered wood saddle with inlaid mother-of-pearl -- illustrating the court's role as a patron of the arts. Through...