The Museum of the Moving Image said on Tuesday that it will create a gallery devoted to the work of Henson, the puppeteer and artist who died in 1990, following the donation of nearly 400 puppets, costumes and other props and objects from Henson’s family.
The Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, Queens, which previously featured the exhibition “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World,” said in a news release that its 2,200-square-foot gallery for Henson’s work was expected to open in winter 2014-2015.
Among the works donated to the museum by the Henson family are artifacts from film and TV projects like “The Muppet Show,” “Sesame Street,” “Fraggle Rock” and “The Dark Crystal,” and about 200 puppets including Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Elmo, Ernie, Bert, Count von Count, Gobo Fraggle, the Swedish Chef, and Statler and Waldorf.
“Disney’s “The Muppets …Again!” takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theaters in some of Europe’s most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine—the World’s Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit—and his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two, portrayed by Ricky Gervais. The film stars Tina Fey as Nadya, a feisty prison guard, and Ty Burrell as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon.”
Take A Look Inside Jim Henson’s Creative Process With “Imagination Illustrated” | Fast.Co.Create
Zach went inside the new book with author and Henson archivist Karen Falk. Hooray!!!
First Listen: Cee Lo Green and The Muppets - “All I Need Is Love”
Off Cee Lo’s upcoming Christmas album. The track uses “Mahna Mahna” in its hook. Listen through the very end.
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8+ Minute Blooper Reel From ‘The Muppets’ | BuzzFeed
The Muppets Take on The Hunger Games in New Parody Trailer | ComingSoon
And you thought you had seen the last Muppets parody trailer.
On today’s Fresh Air, songwriter Bret McKenzie talks about writing the songs for the new Muppet movie: “They take it very seriously, and sometimes in the studio, they kind of ‘Method’ Muppets, where in between takes, they stay in character. So I’m in the studio, we do a take and then we’re like, ‘Can you do it again? Just a little more energy?’ and then they talk back to you as Fozzie the Bear. So it’s like I’m having a conversation with the Muppet in there. Pretty strange, very surreal job.”
This is going to be a good one.
Oscar Nominees - Music (Original Song)
- “Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets” Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Please tell me this means we get a song performed by a combination of Jason Segel, Jim Parsons, Bret McKenzie and/or a Muppet!
If there’s anything right with the world this will happen.
“Am I a Muppet, or am I a man? If I’m a man, I’m a Muppet of a man.”
WATCH the making of this Showdown right HERE
