Museum of the
Moving Image
Price:
Included with museum admission, free Friday evenings
The reimagining and recycling of Hollywood movie iconography in contemporary art, and the
way that movies live on in our personal and cultural memories, are explored in
the exhibition Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, opening on
November 7, 2015 at the Museum of the Moving Image. Organized by independent curator
and scholar Robert M. Rubin, the exhibition includes 120 works of 40 artists
and directors that dissect, appropriate, and redefine some of the past century’s most iconic films through
photography, drawing, sculpture, print, and
video. They are joined by a selection of rare film ephemera repositioned as artworks ranging from costume designs for Rosemary’s Baby to the complete original key book stills from The 39 Steps. With a nod to the
“walkers,” or zombies, from the TV
series The Walking Dead, the exhibition’s title references the lingering power of film detritus on the imagination of the living.
