Article: Puppet Love

Puppet Love

The ICA's marionette show is hard-hitting fun.

"The Puppet Show"

Through March 30. Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th (St. 215.898.7108. www.icaphila.org

Artists enjoy being in control. They're puppeteers. And as you can see in the Institute of Contemporary Art's "The Puppet Show"-actual puppetry is popular with some of today's leading artists.

This encyclopedic roundup of puppet art has everything from displays of vintage puppets to puppetlike sculptures, videos and clay animations. Like Punch and Judy, "The Puppet Show" both entertains and taps into important topics like love, hate, violence, sex, identity and humor.

Some of the !best works raise issues about the ...

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