When: through October 3, 2016
The only thing better than a trip to see a museum exhibit is a trip to see a museum exhibit featuring a Muppet. The one I saw recently had memorabilia from Carol Burnett and Phyllis Diller, including Burnett's famous charwoman costume and Diller's fright wig. I remember watching The Carol Burnett Show when I was a kid - those skits where Harvey Korman would crack up were a riot. The charwoman was more than a comic figure; she was an intelligent person, hampered by her class and her gender.
Diller made an entire career out of skewering the ideal vision of the wife and mother. No happy homemaker she! She pulled back the curtain and revealed that things were not all "Ozzie and Harriet" on the home front.
The best part of the display for me though, was Miss Piggy. She's a hand and rod puppet, but she's so much more! She's a high-maintenance diva, unafraid to speak her mind since she was first introduced in 1974. In June 2015, she won an award from the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Of course, I had to look up Elizabeth A. Sackler, and it turns out she's a public historian and activist, as well as the daughter of Arthur Sackler, of the Sackler Gallery. A juxtaposition of two of my favorite things: the Sackler and the Muppets.
Verdict: I hope you got a chance to see this fun display.
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