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...program winds down, these oddities are joined by more familiar forms. A ceramic camel carries an entire band of traveling minstrels, and a stylishly plump court lady wears an eclectic silk outfit, remarkably well preserved. The show comes at a fitting time. Today, inhabitants of the places that held these treasures tend to look back at the culture of their forbears as monolithic, and only now beset by tainting influences from abroad. But their ancestors knew differently. They managed their confusing times with grace and curiosity?and wandering among the pieces of what they left behind is a rare pleasure...
...Noel, the philosophy guy, showed up to Tea Time in an ascot. It’s like a puffy tie, a piece of silk, an alternative to a tie that you wear with a suit,” says Silas I. Richelson ’08. “It’s casual. It’s a European thing...
...Business is about getting results. Politics is about power, and non-profits are about process,” said Mark Boyce, a founder of a social venture fund, Silk Roads Ventures, and a graduate...
...Nebenzahl's title somewhat misleadingly suggests, the parameters of this collection coincide roughly with those of Asia. The "silk road" here distends geographically and semantically to encompass any and all lands east of Western Europe. But the Orient is more than a geographic orientation for the collection?it is an evolving and affecting idea. Nebenzahl's mapmakers?with only two exceptions?are Westerners, and the pictures they drew of unknown lands reveal more about Europe's imagination than Asia's landscape...
...illustration of Beijing and a portrait of the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Cresques doesn't skimp on detail. He crams each of the Atlas' eight leaves with brilliant illuminations of myths (both biblical and classical), Kings, flags, ships and monsters, as well as the first known depiction of a Silk Road caravan, with caped traders' riding camels across the Taklimakan desert in what is now China's Xinjiang province...