In China, efforts to preserve the art form have taken on a special urgency. Jianbo Peng, director of the Digital Museum of Shadow run by the China Academy of Art, has dedicated the last 15 years ...

Free Indonesian Wayang Kulit shows 6/23 & 6/24 The upcoming collaborative mashup between Nusantara Arts and The Buffalo AKG Art Museum is going to be singularly spectacular. The show – ...

Chinese shadow puppetry, a comprehensive art form combining carving, paper-cutting, painting, music, and performance, boasts a history spanning over 2,200 years. In 2006, ...

"Wayang kulit", a theatrical art form once popular across Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia, is traditionally performed with figurines crafted from buffalo skin, whose shadows ...