History, told by puppets: Wael Shawky's rich tale of the Crusades comes to the Modern
History, told by puppets: Wael Shawky’s rich tale of the Crusades comes to the Modern Benjamin Lima, The Dallas Morning News Over the course of five years starting in 2010, Egyptian-American artist Wael Shawky created an epic film trilogy on the Crusades, as seen from the medieval Muslim point of view, represented on screen in the form of a puppet show. Now, a piece of that remarkably rich and deep visual world is on view as part of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s “Focus” exhibition series. It includes one of the three Cabaret Crusades films, along with 28 new d...
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