{"id":18211,"date":"2016-01-28T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/?p=18211"},"modified":"2016-07-19T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:44:11","slug":"sendak-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/blog\/2016\/01\/sendak-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Sendak Museum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18226\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18226\" class=\"wp-image-18226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sendak1-400x270.jpg\" alt=\"sendak1\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Sendak standing with a scene from his book \u201cWhere the Wild Things Are,\u201d at the Children\u2019s Museum of Manhattan in 2002. Credit James Keyser\/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maurice Sendak, author of the famed children&#8217;s book, Where The Wild Things Are, lived and worked in the\u00a0small town of Ridgefield, Conn. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/26\/arts\/design\/where-the-wild-things-arent-a-sendak-museum.html?_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a> states, &#8220;Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/09\/books\/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html\">his death in 2012<\/a>, his estate and foundation and a group of devoted local Sendakians have been working to make this town into what some day may be the primary pilgrimage site for his fans, the way Sante Fe, N.M., is for Georgia O\u2019Keeffe or Amherst, Mass., is for Emily Dickinson, one of Mr. Sendak\u2019s favorite authors. The urgency to create a place for the public to visit increased in 2014 when the artist\u2019s estate, citing Mr. Sendak\u2019s wishes late in life, withdrew more than 10,000 pieces of original artwork and other material \u2014 the heart of his archive \u2014 from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosenbach.org\/\">Rosenbach Museum and Library<\/a> in Philadelphia, to which Mr. Sendak lent pieces for decades and which organized more than 70 exhibitions of his work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18224\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18224\" class=\"wp-image-18224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sendak3-400x256.jpg\" alt=\"sendak3\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration from &#8220;Where The Wild Things Are&#8221; by Maurice Sendak<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Evidently, Sendak&#8217;s\u00a0will stipulated that\u00a0his home\u00a0operate as a museum or research center for\u00a0scholars, students, and artists, and also offer tours\u00a0to the general public.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18223\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18223\" class=\"wp-image-18223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sendak4-400x256.jpeg\" alt=\"sendak4\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration from &#8220;Where The Wild Things Are&#8221; by Maurice Sendak<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the foundation struggles\u00a0to reach agreement on plans and funding, it seems a museum won&#8217;t be materializing in the immediate future, but there is still hope that something could develop over time. 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