In Puppet Conference, the puppets discuss the intricate web of understanding and protocol that defines a puppet's personal identity. Puppet Conference has the appearance of a live-action video that records words and actions as they occur. To create the video, Jankowski collaborated with the puppets in ways that permit the work to be faithful to each puppet's public persona, yet allows for surprises and revelations when the balance shifts from the planned to the unforeseen. Puppet Conference will also include a brief slide history of television puppets, narrated by Art Cat, and a cameo appearance by Elmo from Sesame Street.

Programs
To mark the observance of National Day of Puppetry on Saturday, April 26, 2003, Carnegie Museum of Art will offer free admission to all puppets. Call 412.622.3131 for more information.

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Windshield: Richard Neutra's House for the John Nicholas Brown Family
March 1, 2003 – May 25, 2003
The Heinz Architectural Center

This exhibition examines a lost landmark of modern architecture and the extraordinary architect-client relationship that produced the Windshield House. Richard Neutra designed this summer home on Fishers Island, New York, for John Nicholas Brown. Completed in 1938, the quintessentially modernist house was Neutra's most significant residential building outside of Los Angeles and his only design on the East Coast. Named for its extensive glass exterior, the Windshield House was appropriately appointed on the interior with Brown's large collection of furniture by the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto and two prefabricated Dymaxion bathrooms by Buckminster Fuller. The house was destroyed by fire in 1973, but the unusual collaboration between Neutra and his client is documented in a wealth of surviving correspondence and sketches.

The exhibition includes architectural drawings, models, photographs, furnishings and other design objects from the house, as well as correspondence between the architect and client. This exhibition was organized by the Harvard University Art Museums in collaboration with the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Harvard Design School. Sponsored in part by the Graham Gund Exhibition Fund, Harvard University. A catalogue, published by the Harvard Design School and Yale University Press, accompanies the exhibition.

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On view concurrently with Windshield, TransModernity presents completed projects and buildings by three Austrian firms–henke un schreieck, Jabornegg & Pálffy, and Riegler Riewe–whose work represents the current state in the century-long evolution of Modernism. As one of the birthplaces of architectural Modernism and a country with a rich and vital historic built environment, Austria has always been an especially fertile site for a negotiation between the pull of architectural tradition and the push of modernity. And because the urban fabric of Austrian cities is very dense, architectural interventions, whether new construction, renovations, or the design of interiors, have required a sensitivity to the existing context. In TransModernity, the featured firms take Modernism as a starting point but are not bound by a limiting set of conventions. The six projects in the exhibition (three university buildings, a vocational school, a museum, and a bank) are represented through drawings, photographs, and a 32-foot video projection, which shows the interior and exterior of each building, its urban context, and its designers at work. TransModernity was initiated by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and organized by the Architekurzentrum Wien (Vienna); the video piece was produced by gangart, in Vienna. A catalogue in English accompanies the show.

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For 73 years, studio art classes for kids at Carnegie Museum of Art have nurtured budding artists, including Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, and Raymond Saunders. Students in the current program, the Art Connection, develop their artistic skills with local artist-instructors and take part in special gallery talks, tours, and discussion groups that expand and deepen their appreciation of the visual arts. This year's exhibition showcases the work produced by 5th- through 9th-grade students inspired by the creative environment of the museum and its collections.

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Special Event:
The Eleventh Annual Antiques Show
April 11–13, 2003
Various locations in the Museum

With more than 40 well-known and reputable dealers from around the country, the Annual Antiques Show, sponsored by the Women's Committee of Carnegie Museum of Art, offers an excellent opportunity for the public to view and purchase high-quality antiques. The show's preview party will be held April 10 and internationally renowned designer Mario Buatta will speak on April 11. For information, call 412.622.3325.

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