Jim Henson’s stunning creative world — from Muppets to David Bowie’s ‘Labyrinth’ — explored in a Contemporary Jewish Museum exhibit in S.F.
“The Jim Henson Experience: Imagination Unlimited” fills the Contemporary Jewish Museum in downtown San Francisco with more than 150 artifacts, from a 1970s Kermit the Frog puppet greeting visitors to sketches of Miss Piggy to David Bowie’s sleek black costume from “Labyrinth.”
The creative process of Henson and his colleagues, notably Frank Oz, is the real spine for the exhibit, an unlimited sense of imagination to share with the public. The stars of the Henson universe — Kermit, Miss Piggy, Rowlf, Bert, Ernie — are all here, and will certainly win the attention of fans. But Henson’s early works, such as 8-second-long coffee commercials, and later projects that fizzled are also part of the exhibit’s story. They just could inspire budding artists to think, “Maybe I could try something like that… .”
All of this — plus a movie-screen-size projection and an array of props from “The Dark Crystal” — fit perfectly, with room to spare, in the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s expansive galleries. Henson died of bacterial pneumonia in 1990 at the age of 53. But like the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco’s Presidio, the exhibit explores both the roots and the legacy of an entertainment genius’ creative force.Here is a “pitch reel,” a 1969 video designed to convince local station executives that an educational TV series for children had a chance of success. That, of course, was “Sesame Street.
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