The Denver Art Museum (DAM) welcomes Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak, for the 2024/25 holiday season.
One of the most versatile artists of the 20th century, Maurice Sendak is best known for award-winning titles Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and Nutshell Library. He also designed theater sets and collaborated on films.
Wild Things will open at the DAM Oct. 13 and will be on view through Feb. 17, 2025, in the museum’s Hamilton Building.
The show will include a wide array of objects, drawings, paintings, and mockups. It also includes sketches for the set designs of the Where the Wild Things Are opera and costumes for the live-action, feature-length film.
Wild Things is titled after Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, the beloved children’s book he authored in 1963 that became a cultural touchstone, signaling to all the beauty, whimsy, and mischief that his art inspired over his 65-year career. Among many other highlights, thethe original paintings for Where the Wild Things Are and significant additional loans from The Morgan Library & Museum in New York and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
As always, children are admitted free at the Denver Art Museum. Plan your visit here