This weekend the new Tim Burton exhibition opened its doors at LACMA. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a major retrospective exploring the full range of Tim Burton’s creative work, both as a film director and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.

“The exhibition brings together over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects. Many of these objects come from the artist’s own archive, as well as from studio archives and private collections of Burton’s collaborators. Hundreds of never-before-exhibited artworks and sketches will be joined by a selection of film posters accompanied by music composed for the exhibition by Burton’s longtime collaborator Danny Elfman.

Two large-scale outdoor artworks are also installed on campus: a topiary inspired by Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Balloon Boy, an enormous figure based on an amalgamation of characters that Burton first introduced in his 1997 book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories.”

The exhibition runs until October 31st, 2011, and looks amazing.

Photography: Brandon Shigeta

The full recap follows after the jump.

This past November, The MoMA opened a retrospective honoring the art of acclaimed director Tim Burton. As a further tribute to the director, a custom 2010 weekly planner was published by Moleskine. The books feature Tim Burton’s signature and the MoMA logo embossed on the cover along with a unique paperband featuring the names of several of Burton’s films. These titles are set atop images of one of Burton’s earliest characters, Vincent, the star of a 1982 short film created in collaboration with Rick Heinrichs. The exhibition runs through April 26, 2010 at The MoMA.

On view November 22, 2009 – April 26, 2010. For more information, please visit http://www.moma.org/timburton

Starting November 22nd, MOMA will be showing an extensive retrospective of the work of artist, writer, producer Tim Burton.

“Following the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects. The opposing themes of adolescence and adulthood, and the elements of sentiment, cynicism, and humor inform his work in a variety of mediums—drawings, paintings, storyboards, digital and moving-image formats, puppets and maquettes, props, costumes, ephemera, sketchbooks, and cartoons. Taking inspiration from sources in pop culture, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as a spiritual experience, influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics.”

The exhibition is on until April 26, 2010, so make sure to pass by!