“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...

Armenian shadow puppetry is a technique whose origins can be traced to the 1300s. The puppet theater group known as Ayrogi has set out to keep this imaginative art form alive. Narek Harutyunyan Behind ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Storyteller Sona Tatoyan used her great-great-grandfather’s Karagöz shadow puppets to discuss the ...

Naga, a mythical serpent (late 1700s–early 1800s), West Java (all images © The Trustees of the British Museum, courtesy the British Museum) For centuries, shadow ...

Traditional performing art forms are very importantly rooted in India's cultural history, social practices and linguistic contexts. One such form is Shadow puppetry, characterized by narratives being ...

Traditional Chinese shadow puppetry is one of the country’s most spectacular folk arts. Behind a large screen, backlit so that it’s translucently illuminated, handmade donkey-hide puppets dance across ...

NT BUZZ As part of the monthly History Hour programme at the Museum of Christian Art, Old Goa, professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California Daniel Michon will ...

Jim Kern of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum held a birthday party for the town’s namesake, General Mariano Vallejo, who would have been 212 this week. Puppets and sets from Magical Moonshine ...

Remember when Sesame Street’s Big Bird made us smile or Bert and Ernie, the inseparable duo, had us rolling on the floor laughing? How about their beloved Pinoy counterparts Pong Pagong and Kiko ...