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PUPPETS OF NEW YORK
“Puppetry is a very old art, and it is a very subversive art,” says the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow Monxo López, who curated the show. “Puppeteers were a seedy group of people and were mistrusted by authorities because puppets are able to say things to power that humans cannot. My idea was to showcase the diversity of puppet traditions” — traditions, he says, that reflect the histories and migration lines that have shaped the city into what it is today.
Museum of the City of New York
August 2021-April 2022
Curated by Monxo López
Team included: Xiaoxiao Guo, Olivia de Salve Villedieu, Johanna Vargas
Photographs courtesy of Brad Farwell
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