Contemporary Jewish Museum (Venue Partner)
736 Mission St
415.655.7800
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Maurice Sendak, Final drawing for Where the Wild Things Are, © Maurice Sendak, 1963. All rights reserved.
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Sep 8, 2009 – Jan 19, 2010
Mondays–Tuesdays (11am–5pm)
Thursdays (1–8pm)
Fridays–Sundays (11am–5pm)
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Directions: 736 Mission Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets.
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$10
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With everyone atwitter about the October release of the Dave Eggers-penned, Spike Jonze-helmed, and Arcade Fire-filled adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, there is bound to be a new wave of Maurice Sendak mania in the coming weeks. So, the Contemporary Jewish Museum's retrospective of Sendak's story-book career couldn't be timelier. Through a series of revealing interviews and a major mounting of original drawings, There's a Mystery Here traces the sober and challenging undercurrents of Sendak's canon — isolation, guileful intolerance, the power of memory and fantasy to overcome all — to his upbringing as the child of poor Jewish immigrants from pre-Holocaust Poland.
