Tim Burton's LACMA Exhibit Drawing Mixed Reviews
The Tim Burton exhibit opened this weekend at LACMA and was summarily panned by the LA Times.
In an art museum, do we really need to see baby Penguin’s black-wicker pram from “Batman,” Catwoman’s shredded polyurethane cat suit or the fluffy angora sweater used as a fetishistic prop in “Ed Wood”? Such dark or peculiar items are often outward signs of their character’s concealed inner life; but that’s catalog essay interpretation, not exhibition material. You get the feeling they’re only here to satisfy the paying movie fans.
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