Tag: Christopher Knight


May 31, 2011 | 12:35 p.m.

Tim Burton welcomed in L.A. by hundreds of fans — and one savage review

Tim Burton stands at the entrance to the new LACMA exhibition devoted to his work as a filmmaker and an illustrator on May 28, 2011. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)
A jet-lagged Tim Burton hit Los Angeles this weekend and Los Angeles hit back — well, more precisely, the art critic for the Los Angeles Times hit back with a brutal review of the huge new exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art  that is titled, simply,”Tim Burton.” Critic Christopher Knight essentially gave the exhibit a review so harsh that it might even have made the ever-optimistic Ed Wood cringe. Knight wrote: “Tim Burton,” the big, poorly organized traveling show from New York’s Museum of Modern Art that surveys the genesis and development of the Hollywood director’s distinctive visual style, opened Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It should be effervescent. Instead, the show is a monotonous plod.” The critic also weighed in on the exhibit’s propensity for props: “In an art museum, do we really need to see ...
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