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15/11/2000

Julie Taymor

National Museum of Women in the Arts - NMWA, Washington

Playing with fire.

The exhibition will offer an up-close look at large-scale installations from key productions in Director, Composer, Story-teller, Costume Designer Julie Taymor's 25-year career - from her early works inspired by Indonesian theater to her latest creation, the feature film TITUS starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Scene recreations, puppets, masks, costumes, video clips, set designs, special effects, theatrical lighting, preparatory drawings, and music will be featured.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) was incorporated in December 1981, operating for the first five years from temporary offices with docent-led tours of Wilhelmina Cole Holladay and Wallace F. Holladay collection of artwork executed by women artists which forms the core of the institution's permanent collection. In the spring of 1987, NMWA opened its permanent location, a 78,810-square-foot former Masonic Temple near the White House with the inaugural exhibition American Women Artists, 1830-1930.

Julie Taymor's fertile imagination and genius for storytelling in theater and opera and on film have drawn acclaim from audiences and critics worldwide. She achieved fame in 1998 as director, co-composer, costume designer, and co-designer of masks and puppets of Disney's The Lion King on Broadway, and was the first woman to win a Tony award for director of a musical.

In its sole East Coast venue, the exhibition will offer an up-close look at large-scale installations from key productions in Taymor's 25-year career, from her early works inspired by Indonesian theater to her latest creation, the feature film Titus starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. It will feature scene recreations, puppets, masks, costumes, video clips, set designs, special effects, theatrical lighting, preparatory drawings, and music. From Washington, the exhibition will travel to the Field Museum,

NMWA - The National Museum of Woman in the Art - 1250 New York Avenue - Washington D.C. - Tel: 2149150860

http://www.thewomensmuseum.org/

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