View this deeply moving tribute to Maurice Sendak which offers a rare, intimate, and unexpected look at his exceptional life as an author and illustrator. Featuring a post-screening discussion with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Spike Jonze!
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Sunday, July 28, 1:00 pm
Doors at 12:00 pm
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About the Program
From Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze (director, Where the Wild Things Are) comes a loving look at one of the most cherished and controversial figures in children's literature. In this deeply moving tribute to Maurice Sendak, we meet the seminal talent whose lifelong obsession with death inspired his influential works. Through his own words, personal photos, and illustrations, Sendak offers a rare, intimate, and unexpected look at his exceptional life as an author and illustrator.
Featuring a post-screening discussion with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Spike Jonze!
Directed by Lance Bangs and Spize Jonze (2009, 39 min., TV-14)
Arrive early/Stay late to view the exhibitions! Tell Them Anything You Want is the perfect complement to the exhibition Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak, which highlights the fantasy worlds, monsters both friend and foe, and creativity of Maurice Sendak's sixty-year career. And don't miss Frank Stella: Had Gadya, The American Library, Common Ground, and Visions and Values while you're here.
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Maurice Sendak: by Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs
Related Exhibition
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Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak
On view through September 1, 2024
