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Dali illustrates “Alice in Wonderland”

Matthew Rodriguez — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:45:30 +0000

A couple decades after the initial 1865 publication of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, my favorite mustachioed, anteater-walking surrealist, Salvador Dalí, took a crack at illustrating the 1969 Random House edition with an image for each of the twelve chapters. Dali is always so predictable and yet paradoxically so unpredictable. Children be damned, you know he's going to create something that can only be the product of hallucinogenic drugs (or so I've heard)...

It’s Hard to be Old, White and Rich in H’Wood These Days

Paula Froelich — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:15:29 +0000

PRECIOUS stars Mariah Carey and Gabourey Sidibe, at the Independent Spirit Awards Wow. The last couple of days have been a BLUR… Friday were the Independent Spirit Awards – which rocked. For some reason the gods decided to bless me and my date, Estee Lauder Pres. John Demsey, and sit us front and center with [...]

Tim Burton at MoMA

Bradford Shellhammer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:47:01 +0000

This November MoMA will house a major retrospective of Tim Burton’s work. The show, Tim Burton, will showcase his career as a ”director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator.” It will feature his drawings from early childhood through his most current [...]

Alice wonders Burton and Leibovitz

Sundance Channel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:01:23 +0000

As artists continue to draw inspiration from childhood fears and fairy tales, it comes as no surprise that classic stories like Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (more commonly known as Alice in Wonderland) are being tapped. Coming up on the 2010 film lineup is Tim Burton's much anticipated ALICE IN WONDERLAND with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter (who else?), Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. But Burton is hardly the first to put a unique spin on Carroll's tale. With the first official photographs of WONDERLAND released last week, photographer-extraordinaire Annie Leibovitz's editorial for Vogue US December 2003 have "resurfaced," thanks to the efforts of bloggers everywhere.