LACMA (Venue Partner)
5905 Wilshire Blvd
323.857.6000
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Tim Burton, Untitled (The World of Stainboy), 2000, private collection © Tim Burton
- When
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May 29, 2011 – Oct 31, 2011
Mondays–Tuesdays (noon–8pm)
Thursdays (noon–8pm)
Fridays (noon–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–8pm)
- Where
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Directions: LACMA is located on Wilshire Boulevard between Fairfax and Curson avenues—midway between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica. From the Santa Monica Freeway (10), take Fairfax Avenue north 2 miles to Wilshire Boulevard.
- Price
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$20
- Links
“Take a ride through the dark and twisted imagination of Tim Burton, the director of such films as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and the creative force behind the cult masterpiece The Nightmare Before Christmas. Burton’s indistinguishable vision of the offbeat and macabre has persisted from his early personal shorts, such as Frankenweenie and Vincent, to his latter-day blockbuster fantasias, including a reboot of Alice in Wonderland and the big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This exhibit assembles stills, puppets, early concept designs, animations, and short films that run the breadth of Burton’s career and give unprecedented access to his process and artistry.”
Sam Reisman, Flavorpill
This major retrospective explores the full range of Tim Burton's creative work, both as a director of live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer. Taking inspiration from pop culture, fairytales, and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision. Featuring over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, Tim Burton is expected to be the must-see exhibition in L.A. this summer (more than 800,000 attended at MoMA!).
