Back in 2009 and then 2011, Tim Burton‘s artwork was featured in shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and LA’s LACMA, and his latest show kicked off last year in Las Vegas.
Burton’s first U.S. art exhibit in nearly a decade, “Lost Vegas” took over The Neon Museum beginning on October 15th, 2019, and the exhibit had been scheduled to continue through Sunday, April 12th. Unfortunately, The Neon Museum has been temporarily closed due to the coronavirus, which means many Burton fans won’t get to see the exhibit in person.
That’s the bad news. The good news? This past Friday, for the first time ever, a special virtual guided tour of “Lost Vegas” was provided over on The Neon Museum’s Facebook page.
The museum wrote in the video’s description, “We are focusing on Tim Burton’s artwork that is integrated with the collection of historic Las Vegas signs in the Neon Boneyard.”
If you missed it, you can enjoy the virtual tour down below!
“Lost Vegas” is an exhibition of sculptural and digital installations that celebrates Burton’s link to Las Vegas’ historical neon heritage.
The exhibit features “new and previously displayed large-scale work by the celebrated filmmaker, animator and author, and will be staged in such a way as to take full advantage of the Neon Museum’s combination of indoor and outdoor spaces. The show, a site-specific collaboration between the Museum and Burton, will allow the filmmaker to reflect on his creative legacy while showing his love for the Neon Boneyard, which he popularized during a memorable sequence in his 1996 comedy Mars Attacks.”
As reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal, “about 90 percent of his more than 40 digital and sculptural works were created specifically for The Neon Museum and have never been shown.”