Starting tonight through February 6, the MOMA presents a Pixar (Toy Story, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo) Animation Art retrospective in honor of the studio’s 20th anniversary. The film classics and rarely-seen shorts are to accompany Pixar: 20 Years of Animation – the most extensive animation gallery MOMA ever presented – which will feature interactive kiosks and over 500 works of original art, including early Edna Mode sketches, concept pieces, 35mm prints film prints, sculptures, and digital installations. In addition, the NYTimes reports that a giant zoetrope, roughly eight feet in diameter, will create the illusion of Toy Story characters moving in three-dimensional space and a MOMA curator commented that "there are a lot of references to traditional art, classic art, even recent pop art in the works... we haven't put surrealist pieces of art from the '20s next to 'Monsters, Inc.,' but it has a lot of surrealism in it. 'The Incredibles' has a lot of deco kind of stuff in it."
Gothamist loves all things Pixar (c'mon, Buzz Lightyear deserves to hang in a museum), so we’ll definitely be attending tonight’s screening series which will showcase Toy Story and several shorts.




I read a good review about the Pixar exhibition on Michael Sporn's blog. It's a great info site for those interested in all styles of animation.
www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog
(it's not michael's porn either, heads out of the gutter people.)
Hi
Just thought I would drop a quick note to make yourself and your website visitors aware that the highly sucessful 'Pixar:20 Years of Animation' will be opening at the Science Museum in London from April 1st 2006 for an exclusive 10 week stay - so if you want a ticket, I woudl advise booking early! For more information, please go to www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/pixar
Many thanks
Leila
leila.schembri@nmsi.ac.uk