For many years, there was no animation art to be found in museums or other art exhibitions, with the exception of William Kentridge’s social criticisms. Recently, the genre is blooming, in all its manifestations. Paul Chan’s shadow plays at TENT and the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Jan van Nuenen’s videographic experiments at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and W139, Nathalie Djurberg’s clay characters at locations all over Europe: what is going on here?