OUR NEXT MEETING: Tim Burton Exhibit at LACMA

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a major retrospective exploring the full range of Tim Burton's creative work, both as a film director and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.

The exhibition brings together over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects. Many of these objects come from the artist's own archive, as well as from studio archives and private
collections of Burton's collaborators. Hundreds of never-before-exhibited artworks and sketches will be joined by a selection of film posters accompanied by music composed for the exhibition by Burton's longtime collaborator Danny Elfman.

Two large-scale outdoor artworks are also installed on campus: a topiary inspired by Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Balloon Boy, an enormous figure based on an amalgamation of characters that Burton first introduced in his 1997 book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories.

Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. for 2:00 p.m. Admission
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Ticket Office
5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036

From the San Fernando Valley, take the Hollywood (101) Fwy South into Hollywood; exit at Highland Avenue and go South on Highland Avenue to Wilshire Boulevard; turn right (West) onto Wilshire Boulevard and go 1 mile to LACMA.

From Orange County, take the Santa Ana (5) Fwy North to the Santa Monica (10) Fwy West; from the Santa Monica Fwy, exit at Fairfax Avenue; turn right (North) on Fairfax Avenue and continue to Wilshire Boulevard; turn right (East) on Wilshire Boulevard; LACMA will be on your left. Parking is available in the Pritzker Parking Garage, on 6th Street, just East of Fairfax. 6th Street is one street North of Wilshire Boulevard, behind the museum.

Regular Admission Tickets for this exhibition are $20 per Adult; if we can get at least 10 people committed to attend, we can purchase Group Tickets, which are $15 each. If you plan to attend, e-mail Steve at thewatertower@earthlink.net by June 19th and let him know how many tickets you want. Hopefully we can get a large enough group for the less expensive tickets!