Three year-old Emma dances with puppets to the soundtrack “It ain’t what you make, it’s what makes you do it,” at Santa Monica Museum of Art's 'The Puppet Show' on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at Bergamot Station. The multi-puppet installation is by artist Dennis Oppenheim and titled 'Theme for a Major Hit, 1974' (motor driven marionettes, wood, cloth, felt, soundtrack, tape player, and external speakers soundtrack). The marionettes dance for 2 minutes and rest for 8 minutes all day long. ~ International in scope, the exhibition brings together works by 28 contemporary artists who explore the imagery of puppets in sculpture, film, video, time-based media, animation, and 2D work. The Puppet Show installation includes works by participating artists as well as a collection of historic puppets, who are housed in Puppet Storage—the exhibition's simultaneous entry and “backstage” or unconsciousness. Some works in the show involve puppets as figures (marionettes, shadow puppets, ventriloquist dummies). In others, artists perform as puppeteers. Others still evoke such topics associated with puppetry (manipulation, miniaturization, and control). The Puppet Show is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. It is co-curated by Ingrid Schaffner, ICA Senior curator, and Carin Kuoni, Director. The exhibition runs through August 9th at Bergamot Station.