This Week
December 11 – February 15, 2009
Long before large art exhibitions and blockbuster shows, crowds were awed by traveling shows called “phantasmagoria” in which stories were preformed with the use of magic lanterns and rear projections, creating dancing shadows and frightening theatrical effects. These lively, interactive events incorporated narrative, mythology, and theater in a single art form that entertained while providing a space for thinking about the otherworldly. The artists in Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence draw … read more…