This looks amazing: “The Puppet Show” at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. What an assemblage — the tactile, the animated, the “Music of Regret” — as well as people like John Bell, Clare Dolan, Kara Walker, Mike Kelley, Beth Nixon curating shadows, cardboard, and found objects, and Survival Research Labs . . .This is art as puppet play as serious grown-up fun. The catalog ought to be fantastic, too.

Also Philadelphia-based (and new to me): Puppet Uprising.
Is there champagne in the water, there? Or something slightly more rarified?