- Title: Jim Henson's career is highlighted in a permanent new exhibit
- Date: 21st July 2017
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (JULY 21, 2017) (REUTERS) PUPPET IN CAMERA VARIOUS OF SESAME STREET PUPPETS OPENING OF EXHIBIT VARIOUS OF THE MUPPET SHOW PUPPETS STORY BOARD FOR THE MUPPET SHOW (SOUNDBITE) (English) BARBARA MILLER, CURATOR OF THE COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS, MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, SAYING: "We turned existing office space into a new gallery so that we could permanently sort of tell this story. Use elements from his collection as well as objects on loan from the Jim Henson company archives to really tell a rich and kind of riveting story about Jim Henson as a sort of creative thinker. Constantly curious, pushing the boundaries of technology and bringing these amazing characters to life." VARIOUS OF ITEMS FROM HENSON'S EARLY WORKS KERMIT ON DISPLAY VARIOUS OF ROWLF ON DISPLAY WIDE OF EXHIBIT VARIOUS OF SKETCH BOOK (SOUNDBITE) (English) BARBARA MILLER, CURATOR OF THE COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS, MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, SAYING: "I think there are a lot of surprises here, I hope people are surprised. Of course there's familiar favorites like Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog and Big Bird and all the things you would expect to see at an exhibition about Jim Henson and the Muppets. But there's also a picture that emerges of Jim Henson as an experimental film maker. As someone who was always creatively restless and looking to kind of do the next thing?" VARIOUS OF KIDS PLAYING WITH PUPPET VARIOUS OF EXPERIMENTS SECTION IN EXHIBIT SET UP SHOT OF MILLER TALKING TO CO-WORKER (SOUNDBITE) (English) BARBARA MILLER, CURATOR OF THE COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS, MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, SAYING: "He had this amazing group of folks around him that just enjoyed their work so much and loved what they did. And I think that the joy that people get from these characters, you know, the ingredients of that are in the joy that the people who made them had in creating them. So it really is, I think even, you know, because of that, it was so important for us to tell the story of the creative collaboration between Henson and his team." VIDEO WALL OF CLIPS VARIOUS OF IMMERSIVE WORLDS SECTION IN EXHIBIT INCLUDING FRAGGLE ROCK PUPPETS ITEMS FROM LABYRINTH VISITOR PLAYING WITH PUPPET IN EXHIBIT ENTRANCE TO EXHIBIT EXTERIOR OF MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
- Embargoed: 4th August 2017 21:08
- Keywords: Jim Henson Muppets Kermit exhibit museum
- Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Human Interest / Brights / Odd News
- Reuters ID: LVA0016QNWK0P
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- Story Text:Kermit, the Fraggles, Miss Piggy and other Muppets stars have joined forces for a new Jim Henson exhibition in New York.
The permanent gallery at the Museum of the Moving Image, celebrates the career of the Muppets creator, who considered himself a visual artist.
More than 300 artifacts gifted to the museum in 2013 and on loan from the Henson family are on display. The exhibit is set up in chronological order beginning with Henson's first appearance on television as a high school senior and ending with items from the fantasy action film, 'Labyrinth.'
Some of the highlights include the sketches and story boards from 'Sesame Street' and 'The Muppets Show' television series. Forty-seven puppets from various years of Henson's career are also on display.
In addition to the New York based exhibit, a traveling show will allow Muppet fans from around the world to view Henson's work up close.
The Jim Henson exhibit will officially open on July 22 and was partially funded by a kickstarter campaign.
Henson died in 1990 at the age of 53. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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