New York's Museum Of Modern Art is hosting a five month-long retrospective of the work of Tim Burton beginning on November 22 and running through until April 26, 2010. According to MOMA's website: "This major career retrospective on Tim Burton, consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Following the current of his visual imagination from his earliest childhood drawing through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects. The opposing themes of adolescence and adulthood, and the elements of sentiment, cynicism, and humor inform his work in a variety of mediums—drawings, paintings, storyboards, digital and moving-image formats, puppets and maquettes, props, costumes, ephemera, sketchbooks, and cartoons. Taking inspiration from sources in pop culture, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as a spiritual experience, influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics."
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I < jealous > NY
But if you need an excuse for a trip to NYC, surely this is it?
An excuse is easy, it's the funding I want for...
Buy one or two less Blu-rays a month and there's your fare. There are also some good deals around at the moment, too.
For flights there really are, to be honest. It's just I don't think I could return for the US for the first time since I was 10 and only take in NYC...
Or perhaps I could. It would be wholly ridiculous, though no doubt fantastic.
Hmmm...
This is so exciting! Definitely a trip to make while on my school's Thanksgiving break. I wonder if they'll be doing screenings of any Burton films?
There's going to be screenings, props, a whole host of Burton related material.
You know what? I'm motherfrigging doing it, life and common sense be damned. I'm thinking of heading over at the tail end of its season in April to coincide it with a friend who's on an extended sojournment abroad's birthday - any clues whether there'll be anything extracarricular going on around then?
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