Foreward / Jonathan Sheffer -- Art at the New York world's fair : a personal retrospective / Robert Rosenblum -- Copland at the fair / Howard Pollack -- From sorcery to science : Remo Bufano and world's fair puppet theater / John Bell -- Architectural modernisms at the fair / Rosemarie Haag Bletter -- 1939 : a fair year for popular songs / Miles Kreuger