This special performance will further investigate themes in her solo exhibition, Economics of Suffering, Part IV, on display now, drawing parallels between forms of torture from the Holy Wars of the ...

PARIS — Since the first blade plunged in 1792, the French guillotine has inspired dread and dark nicknames: the widow, the barber, the national razor. Now add a contemporary label: artistic muse. A ...

Although it is an unlikely weapon, the “flying guillotine” was a big hit with martial arts fans when it featured in the eponymous film The Flying Guillotine in 1975. The gruesome invention quickly ...

The classic period of Hong Kong martial arts cinema brilliantly satisfied two sensibilities — the exploitation crowd and the art house cinephile — with its artful blending of athletic gracefulness and ...