Even before Mary Shelley imagined the animation of the lifeless in Frankenstein, brilliant minds across Europe – clockmakers, to be exact – were already tinkering in their workshops, breathing life ...

It’s fitting that the European renaissance of automata, or kinetic sculptures designed to mimic human movement, began with a clockmaker—like their timekeeping counterparts, automata operate on cue, ...

Four centuries of automata whir into wondrous life in a show that’s as much performance as it is exhibition Standing sentry at the door to this enthralling exhibition is a lively figure known as The ...