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Sky Zone launches Little Leapers program for kids six and under
Patricia Faulhaber
Suburbanite correspondent
JACKSON TWP. – Sky Zone in the Belden Village area has launched a new program for kids ages six and under called Little Leapers, which is the reimagined version of the previously offered Toddler Time.
The new program allows parents and kids 6 and under to explore, play and grow together at the trampoline park for $10 per toddler and $5 per adult.
The Little Leapers program offers a mix of structured and unstructured activities to create a fun environment that promotes the development of valuable skills including coordination, balance, teamwork, creativity and communication.
April 30, 2021
Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project, a 60-second explosion commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2009.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Gunpowder, considered one of China’s most significant contributions to the world, has always fascinated Cai Guo-Qiang. Growing up, explosions from cannon blasts, artillery batteries firing into the air and festive firework displays were commonplace, and he recalls the hand of his classmates stained red from filling firecrackers in factories.
A child of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, who participated in propaganda activities, he found an outlet through the medium of gunpowder. Playing with fireworks set him free amidst the oppressive and restrictive context.
Ten of the best art documentaries to watch right now
With many museums temporarily shuttered, now is a great time to catch up on some of the superb films that have been made about art and artists. Spanning London, Beijing and New York, Picasso, Basquiat and Stella, here are 10 of our favourites
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Jacqueline Weld spent the summers of 1978 and 1979 interviewing Peggy Guggenheim, gathering material for her biography of the revolutionary art patron,
Peggy: The Wayward Guggenheim. The tapes, however, were lost and never heard by the public.
When the director Lisa Immordino Vreeland set out to make a film about Guggenheim decades later, she never dreamt of discovering them. But during a fortuitous visit to Weld’s apartment, Vreeland found them languishing in a basement, in a box full of books. The recordings became the framework of this compelling documentary.
Singapore was also a hotbed of creativity in the Sixties, though its art scene at the time is sadly under-documented. “Several artists were experimental and bold and forced audiences to rethink their ideas and understanding of what art can or should be,” says Charmaine Toh, a curator at the National Gallery Singapore. Only recently did the gallery rediscover the first known examples of land art from the city a series of works by performance artist Tang Da Wu. One piece,
Gully Curtains, hadn’t been unpacked since the Eighties.
Wu was concerned to see Singapore’s landscape increasingly stripped of trees to build public housing. As a result of soil erosion, deep gullies scarred the land near his home. In response, he climbed into one of these muddy crevices and positioned seven pieces of cloth of different lengths inside it, adding jagged black marks indicating the depth of the ditch. He left the fabric there for three months, inviting nature to collaborate. The result was a