A few weeks ago when my Mom came into town, we decided to make a day of it in New York & planned on visiting one of the many museums. I had been dying to go to the Tim Burton exhibition for months, anticipating the dark delights I would see. Since we were approaching its last weekend, I was chomping at the bit to drag her into the weirdness with me. Over 700 rare drawings dating from his childhood to the present, paintings, photographs, story boards, concept art, costumes, props, annotated scripts-- it was a black & white striped dream world! A hectic conglomerate of all his works and it was just as strange as I hoped it would be. To see the early ideas & illustrations that sparked his later works was fascinating--Tim Burton made suburbia acknowledge & accept the eccentric. The originality & imagination behind his characters & films is truly genius & seeing his ground-breaking works displayed all together was a deliciously bizarre treat. I can only wonder what other remarkably odd ideas Mr. Burton has yet to share with us...Because while I enjoy my preppy sportswear & brunches, I look forward to getting a generous slice of abnormal pop surrealism to balance me out.
A few weeks ago when my Mom came into town, we decided to make a day of it in New York & planned on visiting one of the many museums. I had been dying to go to the Tim Burton exhibition for months, anticipating the dark delights I would see. Since we were approaching its last weekend, I was chomping at the bit to drag her into the weirdness with me. Over 700 rare drawings dating from his childhood to the present, paintings, photographs, story boards, concept art, costumes, props, annotated scripts-- it was a black & white striped dream world! A hectic conglomerate of all his works and it was just as strange as I hoped it would be. To see the early ideas & illustrations that sparked his later works was fascinating--Tim Burton made suburbia acknowledge & accept the eccentric. The originality & imagination behind his characters & films is truly genius & seeing his ground-breaking works displayed all together was a deliciously bizarre treat. I can only wonder what other remarkably odd ideas Mr. Burton has yet to share with us...Because while I enjoy my preppy sportswear & brunches, I look forward to getting a generous slice of abnormal pop surrealism to balance me out. 
I wish this hadn't ended in April... I would have like to gone in June. I'm looking into going to the city museum and the International Center of Photography - maybe the Guggenheim.
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Well written Dionne, wish I had made it! Did you ever see Alice in Wonderland??
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