BURTONALIA

BURTONALIA Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:00–10:00 P.M.
MoMA located on 11 West Fifty-third Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues.

PopRally invites you to an intimate viewing of the Tim Burton exhibition. This show is followed by a special variety show inspired by the very unique vision of Burton and his collaborators. Comedian Max Silvestri will play ringmaster to a cavalcade of performers, including improvisers Rebecca Drysdale and Jeff Hiller, comedians David Rees and Sam Anderson, comedian/musician Reggie Watts, music from Brigham Brough of Elvis Perkins in Dearland and others, and surprises galore.

Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking with his as an expression of dark offbeat personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans young and old a like and influencing a new generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of Burton’s creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film.

Exhibition viewing and cocktail reception starts at 7:00 p.m. and ends at 8:30 p.m.
Theater program begins promptly at 8:30 p.m.

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