Wickedly Wonderful: Tim Burton at MoMA
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By Casey Kettleson
in Culture Features
on November 20, 2009
Prepare to step inside the wildly imaginative world of Tim Burton with MoMA's newest exhibition.
Few filmmakers have taken us on magical journeys the way Tim Burton has. Hauntingly beautiful, Burton's film have included Edward Scissorhands (1990), Beetlejuice (1988), 
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005) and Sweeney Todd (2007) - and we're dying to see his version of Alice in Wonderland, hitting theaters March 5, 2010, which is sure to be nothing short of fantastic. But thankfully we won't have to wait until next spring to get our Burton fix...
Opening this Sunday, MoMA presents a major career retrospective on Burton consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series (Tim Burton and Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters), which 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 early childhood drawings 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.
Timed tickets are available for this exhibition at no extra cost, but MoMA recommends that you select a specific date and time when you purchase your admission ticket online. See the official site below for complete information.
We are simply dying to attend this exhibition. What about you? And what is your favorite Tim Burton film?
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Krista_Marzy_Amira • about 2 years ago
I can't wait to go to this! I was actually about to post about it. So pumped.