MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
11 W 53rd St
212.708.9400
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Tim Burton. Untitled (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories). 1982–84. Pen and ink, marker, and colored pencil on paper, 10 x 9" (25.4 x 22.9 cm). Private collection. © 2009 Tim Burton
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Nov 22, 2009 – Apr 26, 2010
Mondays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Wednesdays–Thursdays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays (10:30am–8pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10:30am–5:30pm)
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$12-20
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“Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also happens to be a photographer, illustrator, and graphic artist. MoMA's retrospective delves deep inside his mind and unearths early childhood drawings, sketches from unrealized projects, and original art such as Untitled (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories), which recalls Ralph Steadman's acid-laced world. A comprehensive film retrospective complements the show and includes a screening of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) introduced by Burton himself. ”
Chris Kompanek, Flavorpill
Accompanied by the film exhibition Tim Burton
This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), 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.
