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Ongoing exhibition: A Saint in the City

Columbia University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture present A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal, a landmark project curated by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, which features contemporary Senegalese art and representations of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, the founder of the Sufi Mouride brotherhood.

• On view until June 29 at the Schomburg.

This exhibition is in conjuction with Tolerance, Democracy and Sufis in Senegal, a conference held March 7-8, 2008 that investigated how Sufi brotherhoods played a crucial role in establishing a democratic and tolerant society.