Tim Burton Art Exhibition at MOMA and New Book

A retrospective art exhibition featuring the work of Tim Burton has just opened at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and will be on display through April 16th, 2010.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Tim Burton, a major retrospective exploring the full scale of Tim Burton’s career, both as a director and concept artist for live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer. On view from November 22, 2009, through April 26, 2010, the exhibition brings together over 700 examples of sketchbooks, concept art, drawings, paintings, photographs, and a selection of his amateur films, and is the Museum’s most comprehensive monographic exhibition devoted to a filmmaker. An extensive film retrospective spanning Burton’s 27-year career runs throughout the exhibition, along with a related series of films that influenced, inspired, and intrigued Burton as a filmmaker.

Tim Burton gives a behind the scenes look at his art exhibition at MOMA.

Here’s a promo for the MOMA art exhibition directed by Tim Burton.

“The Art of Tim Burton”, a new book featuring a compilation of over 1,000 of Tim Burton’s illustrations spanning a 40 year period, has just been published.

The Art of Tim Burton is the definitive compilation of forty years of Tim Burton’s artistry, including film concepts and hundreds of illustrations from his personal archives, edited under the creative guidance of Burton himself. This comprehensive 434 page book is grouped into thirteen chapters that examine common themes in Burton’s work, from his fascination with clowns to his passion for misunderstood monsters, to his delight in the oddities of people. Many of Burton’s friends and collaborators offer their thoughts, insights and anecdotes about Tim Burton’s style and artistic approach to life.