With or Without Strings: A Puppetry Exhibition

April 20th - June 18th, 2006
Gallery open daily from 12pm - 5pm

Presented in association with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Behring Center collections, and private collectors. “With or Without Strings” celebrates the art of puppetry. This rare showing encompasses marionettes, bunraku, shadow, rod, and hand puppets of all descriptions – from Sesame Street's one-and-only Oscar the Grouch to Jerry Mahoney, Rose the Dog, Petrushka and the work of New York’s leading contemporary puppet artists.

Drawing upon his 25 years of experience performing, designing, directing and founding award-winning puppet companies, guest curator Stephen Kaplin describes “With or Without Strings” as “demonstrating the length and breadth of an extraordinary art form that is not for kids only.”