For about a year, the apprentices work alongside professional artists, creating art in the studio and setting up gallery spaces (they even get paid!). “In addition to learning from the fellows, we ...
"The mere fact that Bob Baker exists brings our community together," Brie Larson says of the historic Bob Baker troupe. By Gary Baum Senior Writer Not long ago, Hollywood’s beloved Bob Baker ...
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A beloved Los Angeles puppetry institution said Monday they’re here to stay now that they’ve worked out a plan to buy their building. The backstory: The Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been ...
The wide red eyes of an albino animal head, fitted onto a lace-covered wire base, greet visitors entering Pandora Gastelum’s studio in the Marigny, where puppeteers have started assembling bits and ...
Absent a “real” strategy in his aggressive foreign policy, President Donald Trump is nonetheless revealing an emergent style or pattern. From Iran, which he is currently pounding, to Venezuela and ...
A dog named Doge takes a rocket ship to Mars to retrieve the family members of his alien owner, Mr. Nonchalant. That’s the plotline two Bethlehem third graders pitched to their Moravian University ...
Unless you’re talking about Jim Henson, famous and puppeteer aren’t two words that tend to appear in the same sentence. But Ronnie Burkett is a rare exception. Since the 1980s, he’s made a name for ...
Eurasia Group, the geopolitical risk consultancy run by Ian Bremmer, gets into the political satire game with its Instagram show “Puppet Regime.” Credit... Supported by By Kim Córdova The electronic ...
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Tiny Cyclosa spiders build large decoy puppets in webs to deter predators. Decoys mimic spiders and may hide egg sacs or spiderlings for protection. Scientists believe this adaptation could inspire ...