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Performing Arts: Puppetry The Puppet Shows: Part II

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Part two of the Santa Monica Museum of Art's The Puppet Shows picks up where part one left off, as a varied cadre of artists explore the metaphor of puppetry through various media. In Janie Geiser's "peep-show/diorama/performance," The Reptile Under the Flowers flirts with live video, while in Caitlin Lainoff's Le Petit Macabre, animation and a kazoo invoke the precariousness of our intergalactic existence. Geiser and Lainoff are just a few of the exhibition's nearly 30 artists, whose ranks include heavy hitters like Kara Walker and Kiki Smith.

– Jessica Jardine

Note: Part II is part of a larger exhibit, The Puppet Show, on view from May 24 to August 9.

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