Michelle Pfeiffer’s latex Catwoman suit from “Batman Returns” is one of the items you’ll be able to find on the Exhibition dedicated to Tim Burton’s World at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, in New York.

MoMA opens a blockbuster show today (through April 26) with a cornucopia of more than 700 items, including weird sculptures, black-velvet paintings, Polaroid photos and sketches covering four decades — almost none of which have ever been shown publicly.

“A lot of stuff was just for projects and thought processes,” says Burton, who allowed curators Ron Magliozzi and Jenny He to ransack his huge private archives and even his home in London.

Visiting the exhibition, you enter through a monster’s head based on a design he created for an abandoned 1980 film project — that these were on Burton’s mind even when he was a disaffected middle-school student in Burbank, Calif., starring in horror movies he shot on Super 8.

Fans of Burton’s feature films — all 14 of them are being shown at MoMA, along with 27 by other filmmakers he’s chosen as influences — will not be disappointed by the vast collection of costumes, props, puppets and models assembled for the exhibit. There’s Johnny Depp’s angora sweater from “Ed Wood,” knives from “Sweeney Todd” and decapitated foam replicas of Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan’s heads from the neglected “Mars Attacks!”. Plus you’ll see puppets from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and, as it has said above, the latex Catwoman suit from the underrated “Batman Returns” as well. Besides, Burton has created seven new works especially for the MoMA exhibit. They include a weird three-story sculpture called “Balloon Boy” that guards a replica of a deer-shaped “Edward Scissorhands” topiary that’s been installed in the museum’s Sculpture Garden.

The opening party took place the past Nov. 17 at the museum, but once more time we missed our Michelle Pfeiffer there, among the former Michelle’s partners on Burton’s movies, we saw Danny De Vito who played the Penguin in Batman Returns. Among the celebrities attending the event, Johnny Depp, Rose Byrne, Ashley Greene and of course the honored, Tim Burton and wife-actress Helena Bonham Carter.

The last time that the Catwoman suit was shown it was on the Superheroes Fashion and Fantasy exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May, 2008, which examined how Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and others had influenced big-name fashion designers, and the feminine figure was represented by characters such as Wonder Woman and Catwoman [PfeifferTheFace past news]

Source: NYpost

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