Words, ideas, sensations and images are packed into this exhibition, a manuscript display that is also something more than that.
It is fun, up to a point, to watch the three talented, easy-on-the-eyes young actors in Paul Grellong's play "Manuscript" display their comfort onstage and their cool, unfussy acting styles.
For more information: ccny.cuny.edu Korean Manuscript Display (through Dec. 30) The ancient art Gof Sagyeong, in which sacred Buddhist texts are transcribed in gold- and silver-painted manuscripts, is on display in "Samadhi + Art = Sagyeong" at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard, at Linden Place, Flushing, Queens.
Korean Manuscript Display (through Sunday) This is the last weekend to see "Samadhi + Art = Sagyeong," a display of more than 50 examples of the ancient art of Sagyeong, in which sacred Buddhist texts are transcribed in gold- and silver-painted manuscripts.
Korean Manuscript Display and Demonstration (Friday; through Dec. 30) The ancient art of Sagyeong, in which sacred Buddhist texts are transcribed in gold- and silver-painted manuscripts, is on display in "Samadhi + Art = Sagyeong" at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard, at Linden Place, Flushing, Queens.
Korean Manuscript Display (through Dec. 30) The ancient art of Sagyeong, in which sacred Buddhist texts are transcribed in gold- and silver-painted manuscripts, is on display in "Samadhi + Art = Sagyeong" at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard, at Linden Place, Flushing, Queens.
Sound isn't a sensation usually associated with manuscript displays, but it's ever present, at least by implication, in this one.
A map of the Crusades, based on a 17th-century Ottoman manuscript, displays in vivid color and luscious rendering the attack routes of European ships against the Ottoman cavalry.
The representative trace we had selected in the original manuscript displayed only two states.
Overall, the manuscript displays great scholarship, with a strong dataset, and conclusions are fully supported by the data.
Numerous illuminated Hebrew manuscripts display a sequential production process, in which figural illustrations and painted miniatures have been added after all scribal work was finished.
