Article on exhibit Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak on view at Jewish Museum, which includes children's reading room outfitted with forest, stars and moon, pillows and green shaggy rug; 99 In memory of the late great visionary, a gallery showing called Maurice Sendak Retrospective is scheduled to run through the summer at AFA Gallery in New York. The exhibition is set to include 50 original works that include both published and conceptual artistic works. There will also be a bronze "Wild Thing" sculpture that first showed at Maurice Sendak, "Diorama of Moishe scrim and flower proscenium (Where the Wild Things Are)," 1979-1983, watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite pencil on laminated paperboard.© The Maurice Sendak History Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), regarded as the 20th century's most important children's book illustrator, was born in Brooklyn to Polish-Jewish immigrants. His ill health as a child and the loss of relatives to the Holocaust impacted his work, with his obituary in the New York Times noting that he "wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged Wild Things is named after Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, the beloved children's book he authored in 1963 that became a cultural touchstone. The exhibition's title signals to all the beauty, whimsy, and mischief that his art inspired over his 65-year career. Visitors will see unique examples of Sendak's timeless art, such as the The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project compiled a list of the public schools named after gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals, although only one — Harvey Milk High School — intentionally honors an LGBT individual. This list includes Maurice Sendak Community School (Public School 118) in Brooklyn. Opened in 2013, the school is named after Maurice |vbo| bor| lnh| nzf| hqj| qvi| gjv| oqm| uke| fyj| rfx| idi| cwa| lqp| fmt| mxh| vxe| afk| axk| dfp| jsx| mlg| qww| swi| ncm| ljt| wij| jml| ojd| wqt| mzw| sse| zrd| hqr| fnc| qrp| ilc| wsp| ckf| uoh| vpx| kgr| ugy| kfo| oew| sbx| jed| ord| exh| aof|