Puppets of New York
Design Team: Xiaoxiao Guo, Olivia de Salve Villedieu, Johanna Vargas Photographs courtesy Filip Wolak
Press: In curating the show, López also tried his hand at building and operating puppets himself, but quickly realized he couldn’t. “It’s not something you can teach yourself watching YouTube,” he says. “Its a very medeval art, you have to learn it under a senior puppeteer.” Vulture
Puppets of New York explores the extraordinary, surprising, and diverse history of New York City’s quirkiest residents. Like other New Yorkers, they both enriched the metropolis and were transformed by it, as they encountered the heady mix of other puppetry traditions, practices, and languages that also made the city home. Adding an interactive element to this exhibition, we created a shadow puppet theater for visitors of all ages to try their hand at puppetry and learn more about the art form.